Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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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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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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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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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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The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.
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My job is to help you fall in love.
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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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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.
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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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...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.
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The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
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If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.
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This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.
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And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")
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We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
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People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.