Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
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...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
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Do what you love, don't do anything else.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.
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Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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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'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
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The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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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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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
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My job is to help you fall in love.
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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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Work. Don't Think. Relax.
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We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.