Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk away from it and let it ferment. You ignore it and pretend you don't care. Next thing you know, the answer comes.
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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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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Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.
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There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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I don't know anything anymore
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If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.
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The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
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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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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.
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And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
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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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I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
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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.
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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
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To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.