You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
RAY BRADBURYYou don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
RAY BRADBURYI do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
RAY BRADBURYWriting is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
RAY BRADBURYThere’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
RAY BRADBURYI’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
RAY BRADBURYAn athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
RAY BRADBURYJump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
RAY BRADBURYIf you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
RAY BRADBURYLooking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
RAY BRADBURYAnything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
RAY BRADBURYDon’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
RAY BRADBURYIt’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
RAY BRADBURYGet 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 BRADBURYTreasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
RAY BRADBURYYou’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
RAY BRADBURYGood to evil seems evil
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