You fail only if you stop writing.
RAY BRADBURYDon’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
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I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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