I 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 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 BRADBURYWrite a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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 BRADBURYIt takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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 BRADBURYGood to evil seems evil
RAY BRADBURYThere is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
RAY BRADBURYAn athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
RAY BRADBURYLove. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
RAY BRADBURYI don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
RAY BRADBURYThat’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
RAY BRADBURYYou must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
RAY BRADBURYLearning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
RAY BRADBURYWe need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
RAY BRADBURYToo late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
RAY BRADBURYWe have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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