How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
RAY BRADBURYWrite a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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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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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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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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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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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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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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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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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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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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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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