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. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#inspirational

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#common-sense #life #zen #life

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#impossible #universe

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#quality #skill #writers #writing #imagination

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

— Ray Bradbury

#intuition

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#humor

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#living #life

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#insanity #insanity

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#inspirational

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#magic #universe #magic