Ray Bradbury Creativity Quotations

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.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

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

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

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.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.