Ray Bradbury Quotes
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A day without writing was a little death.
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If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.
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In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.
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Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
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When I finished writing it, I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.
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When you're older you want to learn from other people.
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It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.
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We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
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Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.
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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
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Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.
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The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
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I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.
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In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
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At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!
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If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.
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A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.
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You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
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I don't know anything anymore
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I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.
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When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.