Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
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I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
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My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.
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The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
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I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
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Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.
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Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.
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But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better.
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I am already promised to the Lord of the Universe. He is more splendid than the sun and the stars, and He has said He will never leave me!
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If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
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For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.
