Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
Quotes to Explore
-
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
-
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
-
When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
-
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
-
Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
-
In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
-
Stop the traffic...let 'em through.
-
Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
-
One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
-
You are my girlfriend," whispered Matthew. " You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight." -pg 126
-
Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?
-
I've watched it on and off. I don't know why everyone is fascinated by it.
-
Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.
-
This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)
-
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
-
Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…
-
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
-
You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
-
Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.
-
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.
-
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
