Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness
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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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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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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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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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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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And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.
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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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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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...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
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Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.
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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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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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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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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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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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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.