An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
RAY BRADBURYAn athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
RAY BRADBURYWrite a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
RAY BRADBURYLooking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
RAY BRADBURYYou fail only if you stop writing.
RAY BRADBURYWork is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
RAY BRADBURYYou’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURYIf 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 BRADBURYIf you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
RAY BRADBURYI don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
RAY BRADBURYIf you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
RAY BRADBURYI have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
RAY BRADBURYIf you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
RAY BRADBURYThere’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
RAY BRADBURYIt takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
RAY BRADBURYGood to evil seems evil
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 BRADBURY