Ray Bradbury Quotes
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And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
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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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And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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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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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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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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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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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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Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
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Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.
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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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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
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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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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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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.