Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
Ray Bradbury
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When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
E. L. Konigsburg
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I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
Samantha Shannon
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The world and its peoples being as they are, there is no easy or quick or infallible approach to a secure peace. It is only by patient, persistent, undismayed effort, by trial and error, that peace can be won. Nor can it be won cheaply, as the taxpayer is learning.
Ralph Bunche
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There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.
Elton John
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The evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.
Charles Dickens
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'HEAVN' is about black girlhood, about Chicago, about the people we miss who have gone on to prepare a place for us somewhere else, about the city/world we aspire to live in. I hope this album encourages listeners to love themselves and love each other.
Jamila Woods
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Mao Zedong
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No, what was sad in his case was that he, who didn’t care for carved oak, should have his drawing-room panelled with it, while people who do care for it have to pay enormous prices to get it. It seems to be the rule of this world. Each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want.
Jerome K. Jerome
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Francis Bacon
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Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.
Lynn Flewelling
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I can’t go to jail, not with his soft skin and these boyish good looks. I’ll be snapped up before the first lights out!
Cedric the Entertainer
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Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
Ray Bradbury
