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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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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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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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 don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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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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What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
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Beware the autumn people
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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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Do what you love, don't do anything else.
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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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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!
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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
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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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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
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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.
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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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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.