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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Ray Bradbury

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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Book Burn People Run World
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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Children Friendship Hell Help Kind Love Marriage People
Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Art Creativity One Liner
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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Believe Dance Destroy Passionate Quick Story Yourself
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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Happiness Missing Need
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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Celebration Fun Joy Serious Writing Yourself
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Creativity Enemy Myself Thinking
If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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Learning Motivational Positive Principle Wisdom
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Failure Inspirational Word Writing
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Alive Force Imagination Life Nature Philosophy Willing
There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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Afraid Darkness Fear Past Shadow
Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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Danger Defeat Media Ourselves Victory
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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Morning Myself Pieces Togetherness
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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Accomplishment Hard Work Word Writing Yourself
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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Gratitude Important True Worth
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
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Beautiful Inspirational Ourselves Philosophy Quiet Spiritual Writing
You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Effort Happiness Misery Yourself
Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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Inspirational Library Satisfaction Teacher
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
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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Creativity Enemy Simplicity Thinking Try
Good to evil seems evil
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Deep Evil Goodness One Liner
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Design Ideas Myself Need Wake Up Writing
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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Fools Hands Men Myself Play Technology Thinking Toys
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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Animal Creativity Greatness Ideas Secret Yourself
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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Energy Excitement Ideas
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Myself Reality Thinking Understand

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