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When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Think
Apart
Thinking
Cutting
Write
Give
Enough
Rework
Giving
Disintegrate
Writing
Rewrite
Time
Explode

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