Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

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• If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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  • Mean
  • Stories