Ray Bradbury Quotes about Creativity

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Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Ray Bradbury

Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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

Ray Bradbury

Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity

Creativity is a continual surprise.

Ray Bradbury

Creativity, Creative, Surprise

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

Ray Bradbury

Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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

Ray Bradbury

Writing, Creativity, Ideas

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

Ray Bradbury

Art, Creativity, Cat

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

Thinking Of You, Creativity, Self

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.

Ray Bradbury

Creativity, Thinking, Stories

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.123, Univ. Press of Mississippi