Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.
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I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.
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Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.
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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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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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When you're older you want to learn from other people.
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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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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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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 (...)
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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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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
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I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
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The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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Evil has only the power we give it.
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But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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Do what you love, don't do anything else.
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Write what you love and love what you write.