Read the writing advice of science-fiction legend Ray Bradbury.

Science-fiction legend Ray Bradbury couldn't afford college, but he spent several days a week in his local library, teaching himself how to become a writer.

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

Ray Bradbury wrote 'Fahrenheit 451,' his landmark dystopian novel, on a rented typewriter in the basement of a UCLA library.

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Sci-fi author Ray Bradbury offered to help aid the Kennedy Administration during the 1960s Space Race.

Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451' was originally called 'The Fireman,' but he changed the title after learning the temperature at which paper burns.

Ray Bradbury said he was inspired to pursue writing after meeting a magician named Mr. Electrico, but scholars have never been able to confirm the story.

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Ray Bradbury used the structure of John Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath' to structure his influential science fiction masterpiece, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

An early short story by Ray Bradbury was plucked from an open submission call by 'In Cold Blood' author Truman Capote, who believed he'd found a significant voice.

'Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.'

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After his death in 2012, NASA paid tribute to Ray Bradbury by naming a rover landing site on Mars after him.

'You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!'

Read George Orwell's essay 'Why I Write,' the writer's memoir on how he came to literature.

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Ray Bradbury said Steven Spielberg was 'one of the most incredible young talents that's ever come into the world.'

'If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.'

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'Everybody has talent and it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in.'

'I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning ... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.'

Watch an episode of 'Ray Bradbury Theater,' the sci-fi writer's '80s HBO show, starring a young Jeff Goldblum.

Watch the 1956 film adaptation of 'Moby-Dick,' cowritten by sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury.

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'Because of phones, we always have the ability to jump out of ourselves. But unless you learn how to be in your head, you’ll never learn how to create.'

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'Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.'

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'An idea is salvation by imagination.'

'For it would seem—her case proved it—that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.'

Sleep is no longer considered a binary state—scientists are seeking to map a variety of liminal states between sleep and waking, including the hypnagogic state associated with boosts of creativity.

Watch writer John Steinbeck's Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

'I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot ... The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.'

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A quote by Lauren Bacall

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Sleep research published in 2021 confirmed that there is a 'creative sweet spot' when people are drifting off to sleep, and that if they wake up at that point to work, it can boost their creative problem-solving.

'The consumer isn't a moron, she's your wife' is among David Ogilvy's most memorable pieces of advertising advice.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the entire first draft of 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' in a frantic three days, only to burn it out of disgust.

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Read Sam Altman's life advice that he wrote in a blog post before he became CEO of OpenAI, from "don't lose touch with old friends" to "occasionally stay up until the sun rises talking to people."

Martha Graham's philosophy of creativity

'I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.'

Science communicator Bill Nye (1955 - ) on science

'It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.'

A quote by Florence Nightingale