Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
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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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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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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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My job is to help you fall in love.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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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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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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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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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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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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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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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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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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What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.
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The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.