Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

Ray Bradbury

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• The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Movie

• Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Change

• I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • God
  • Writing
  • Love

• When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Long
  • Remember

• I love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Songs

• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Saying

• Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Baby

• Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Best

• I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Money

• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Write

• Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Challenge

• I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Angry

• I try to perform honestly during the fight, and I always remember that I'm a representative of Russia. I try not to bring any aggression. Just honesty.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Remember
  • Fight
  • Honesty

• One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • Writing
  • Career

• When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Science

• I grew up with horrible skin. I had cystic acne ever since I can remember. I ended up finally listening to those people who say you are what you eat.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject’s sake, and those who write for writing’s sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Thoughts

• I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.

  

  Rebecca Wells
  • Writing
  • Watch
  • Challenging

• You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Country
  • Die
  • Fight

• I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

  

  Jens Stoltenberg

• The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

  

  Georges Pompidou
  • Take
  • Seriously
  • Riots

• Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Persons