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All education is self-discovery.

Ray Bradbury

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
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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Athlete Experience Preparation Quantity Run
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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Fantasy Leaving Listening Myself Space Taste Travel
If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Beginning Crazy Death Destroy Poison Reality Writing
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
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
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
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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Beginning Best Experience Ideas Inspirational Life Possible Romance Science
Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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Failure Live Myself Rule Run Work Yourself
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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Inspirational Live Love Morning Stay Writing Yourself
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Intuition Poet Way Writing Yourself
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Hell Money Yourself
Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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Action Thinking
It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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Goodness Space Stupidity
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

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