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 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 BRADBURYWriting is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
RAY BRADBURYAn athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
RAY BRADBURYIn order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
RAY BRADBURYDon’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
RAY BRADBURYThe important thing is to be in love with something.
RAY BRADBURYIf you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
RAY BRADBURYThe 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 BRADBURYHow working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
RAY BRADBURYI don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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 BRADBURYThe books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
RAY BRADBURYAll education is self-discovery.
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 BRADBURYCreativity is a continual surprise.
RAY BRADBURYWe 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