Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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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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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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A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.
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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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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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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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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
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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.
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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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Evil has only the power we give it.
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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Write what you love and love what you write.
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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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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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When you're older you want to learn from other people.
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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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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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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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You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.