Ray Bradbury Quotes
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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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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I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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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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...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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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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The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
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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.