To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
Ray BradburyPeople who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.
Ray BradburyIn your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
Ray BradburyMen throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.
Ray Bradbury