Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
RAY BRADBURYLove what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
-
-
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
RAY BRADBURY -
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
RAY BRADBURY -
Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
RAY BRADBURY -
Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
RAY BRADBURY -
Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
RAY BRADBURY -
The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing – but when you’re looking back. Well, it amounts to everything.
RAY BRADBURY -
I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
RAY BRADBURY -
I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
RAY BRADBURY -
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
RAY BRADBURY -
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
RAY BRADBURY -
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
RAY BRADBURY -
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
RAY BRADBURY -
You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
RAY BRADBURY -
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
RAY BRADBURY -
If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
RAY BRADBURY -
The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
RAY BRADBURY -
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
RAY BRADBURY -
If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
RAY BRADBURY -
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
RAY BRADBURY -
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
RAY BRADBURY -
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
RAY BRADBURY -
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
RAY BRADBURY -
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
RAY BRADBURY -
Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
RAY BRADBURY -
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
RAY BRADBURY -
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
RAY BRADBURY