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Ray Bradbury - From the Beginning category:
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Books category:
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Books category:
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Books category:
You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Books category:
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Books category:
In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Criticism category:
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Culture category:
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Dreams category:
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Drunkenness category:
You must stay drunk on [your art] so reality cannot destroy you. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Eccentricity category:
I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Eccentricity category:
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Experiments category:
Life is 'trying things to see if they work.' (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Failure category:
You fail only if you stop... (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Future category:
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Health category:
A good night's sleep, or a ten-minute brawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Humanity category:
We are anthill men upon an anthill world. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Humour category:
I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Ideas category:
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Ideas category:
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Importance category:
The important thing is to be in love with something. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Impossibilities category:
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Insecurity category:
Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Intellect category:
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Intuition category:
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Knowledge category:
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)
Ray Bradbury - From the Life category:
Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Listening category:
A Sound of Thunder... (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Love category:
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Magic category:
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Miracles category:
At base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Miracles category:
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Muse category:
I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Possibilities category:
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Power category:
Everything is generated through your own will power. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Practice category:
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Production category:
- in 1953 typewriters at the library cost 10 cents every half hour...
You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Profession category:
I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Questions category:
-Fahrenheit 451, 1953
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Rejection category:
- advice to writers...
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Risk category:
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Technology category:
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Theory category:
Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Thinking category:
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cannot try to do things. You simply must do things. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Travel category:
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Travel category:
- Zen in the Art of Writing...
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Universe category:
The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Windows category:
Bill, I don't do Windows. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Wisdom category:
We're all fools... all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Wonder category:
Stuff your eyes with wonder... See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Wonder category:
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Writing category:
When you write – explode – fly apart – disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. (Ray Bradbury)
Ray Bradbury - From the Writing category:
Richard Bach with this book does two things. He gives me Flight. He makes me Young. For both I am deeply grateful. (Ray Bradbury)
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