Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.
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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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Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
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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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And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.
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My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.
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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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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'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
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All isn't well with the world.
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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 blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
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The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.