black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You fail only if you stop writing.

Ray Bradbury

I 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

Believe Dance Destroy Passionate Quick Story Yourself
Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
RAY BRADBURY

Danger Defeat Media Ourselves Victory
I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
RAY BRADBURY

Hard Work Love Myself Practice Time True Yourself
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
RAY BRADBURY

Alive Force Imagination Life Nature Philosophy Willing
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
RAY BRADBURY

Beautiful Inspirational Ourselves Philosophy Quiet Spiritual Writing
The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
RAY BRADBURY

Danger Greatness Life Stupidity Yourself
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

Believe Friendship Fun Future Hell Home Leaving Yourself
If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
RAY BRADBURY

Career Job Yourself
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.
RAY BRADBURY

Beautiful Death Dream Eyes Inspirational Life Pay See Travel World
I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
RAY BRADBURY

Design Ideas Myself Need Wake Up Writing
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
RAY BRADBURY

Energy Excitement Ideas
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
RAY BRADBURY

Book Burn Destroy Inspirational Life People Reading Stop Struggle Yourself
There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
RAY BRADBURY

Destination Education Library Path Student Yourself
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
RAY BRADBURY

Myself Reality Thinking Understand
There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
RAY BRADBURY

Afraid Darkness Fear Past Shadow
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
RAY BRADBURY

Avoid Future Myself Try

You fail only if you stop writing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You fail only if you stop writing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ray Bradbury Quotes