Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
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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.
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If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.
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He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
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...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.
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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
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They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.
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Write what you love and love what you write.
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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.
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.
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The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.
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How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?
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Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?
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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
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In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
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A day without writing was a little death.
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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .
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Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
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Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
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People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
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May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
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(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)