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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

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
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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Career Friendship Inspirational Life Reading Writing Yourself
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Address Learning Rejection Wrong Yourself
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Book Burn Destroy Inspirational Life People Reading Stop Struggle 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
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
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Build Courage Greatness Humor Inspirational Live Risk Way Wings Yourself
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
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Fire Illusion Memories Need
In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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Creativity Original
Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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Action Thinking
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Learning Let Go Life Touch
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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Love Money Yourself
You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Build Confidence Courage Inspirational Way Wings 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

That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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