Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.
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There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
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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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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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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.
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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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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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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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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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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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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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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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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.