Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I don't know anything anymore
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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 Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Do what you love, don't do anything else.
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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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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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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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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
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Write what you love and love what you write.
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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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Work. Don't Think. Relax.
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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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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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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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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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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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He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.
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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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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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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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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.