Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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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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Do what you love, don't do anything else.
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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 in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
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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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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
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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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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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I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
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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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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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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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Work. Don't Think. Relax.
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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
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My job is to help you fall in love.
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You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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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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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.