Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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Write what you love and love what you write.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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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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I don't know anything anymore
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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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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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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Do what you love, don't do anything else.
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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
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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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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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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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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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A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.
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Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
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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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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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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!