Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

Ray Bradbury

• Writing
• Real
• Enough
• Rejection

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• People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.

  

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• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

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• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

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• I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

  

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• If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.

  

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• It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

  

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• If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

  

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• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

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• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

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• I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.

  

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• When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

  

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• I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.

  

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• Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

  

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• In the real world, children love me.

  

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• In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

  

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• Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

  

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• I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

  

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• In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

  

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• I'm a real director.

  

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• Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

  

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• I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

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• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

  

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• The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Enough