Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

Ray Bradbury

• Mind
• Stories
• Given
• Imaginative

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• You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Mind
  • Stories
  • Given