Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
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...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.
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There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.
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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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What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
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My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.
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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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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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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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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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The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
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My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.
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Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.
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The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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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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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.