Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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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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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.
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Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.
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My job is to help you fall in love.
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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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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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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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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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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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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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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 novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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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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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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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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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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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.