Fahrenheit 451 author Ray Bradbury even insisted that a writer ought to avoid developing his rational thinking skills, for fear that they'd get in the way of his intuition.
College wasn't a suitable plan for writers, Bradbury said, because learning to overintellectualize things threatened to crush to intuitive mind with reason and analysis. The writer himself kept a sign above his typewriter for 25 years that read "Don't Think." As Bradbury explained in a 1974 interview, "The intellect is a great danger to creativity--because you begin to rationalize and make up reasons for things, instead of staying with your own basic truth--who you are, what you are, what you want to be."