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.
RAY BRADBURYWork 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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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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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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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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