When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Maybe I don’t have enough to do. Maybe I have time to think too much. Why don’t we shut the whole house… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think - the pillars crumbled,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“No," said the old man, deep under. "I don't remember anyone winning anywhere any time. War's never a winning things, Charlie. You… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Lord, he thought, I can hardly wait. He laughed out loud. When was the last time you said that? When you were… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“For there comes a time in the day’s occupations when old Money Writer falls so in love with an idea that he… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“But most of all," she said, "I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“These essays were written at various times over a thirty-year period, to express special discoveries, to serve special needs. But they all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You don't know what it is. Every time I'm out there I think, 'If I ever get back to Earth I'll stay… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The sun burnt everyday. It burnt time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But, lacking this, in future I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“All the things which had uses. All the mountains which had names. We'll give them new names, but the old names are… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I am not one thing. I am many things that America has been in my time. I had enough sense to keep… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.' — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
