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First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don't. Th...more

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From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to ...more

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Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electri...more

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From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people fee...more

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I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good. But I don't want to set out to influenc...more

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In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead o...more

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How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. They stood like the naked pipes of a vast derelict c...more

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Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed...more

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Creativity is a continual surprise.

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -- you c...more

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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 "...more

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Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll e...more

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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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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.