It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
RAY BRADBURYIt’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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 BRADBURYYou have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
RAY BRADBURYYour intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
RAY BRADBURYYou can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
RAY BRADBURYIt takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
RAY BRADBURYCreativity is a continual surprise.
RAY BRADBURYYou’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURYHow working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
RAY BRADBURYLove is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
RAY BRADBURYWrite a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
RAY BRADBURYTeachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
RAY BRADBURYI 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 BRADBURYTreasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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 BRADBURY