Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
RAY BRADBURYTelevision is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
RAY BRADBURYLiving at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURYThere is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
RAY BRADBURYYou have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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 BRADBURYThe minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
RAY BRADBURYThere 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 BRADBURYDon’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
RAY BRADBURYIf someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
RAY BRADBURYIf you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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 BRADBURYWrite a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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 BRADBURYWe have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
RAY BRADBURYYou must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
RAY BRADBURYThe books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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