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Writing Quotes by Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury says the best reward for writing is hearing one person say, “I love you for what you do.” He urges writers to let the world blaze through their words and to avoid self‑consciousness. He also believes love should be at the heart of every story.

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Write what you love and love what you write.

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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

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Love is easy, and I love writing.

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Write. Don't think. Relax.

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You fail only if you stop writing.

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Good writers touch life often.

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I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

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A day without writing was a little death.

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“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”

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I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

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How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

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“The good writers touch life. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.”

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“I had no way to stop . I did not write Fahrenheit 451, it wrote me.”

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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

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“Be pragmatic, then. If you’re not happy with the way your writing has gone, you might give my method a try. If…

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Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize…

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People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get…

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A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of…

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My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run…

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“The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the…

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Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who…

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I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when…

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If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like…

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The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor,…

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“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite…

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“I use a library the same way I’ve been describing the creative process as a writer — I don’t go in with…

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When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower…

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“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned…

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I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the…

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Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the…

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“I’ve tried to teach my writing friends that there are two arts: number one, getting a thing done; and then, the second…

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“I leave you now at the bottom of your own stair, at half after midnight, with a pad, a pen, and a…

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“I never went to college. I don’t believe in college for writers. I think too many professors are too opinionated and too…

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“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out…

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“He was in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was a writer, and tonight was the Day of the Dead ceremony. He was in a…

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“What do you want more than anything else in the world? What do you love, or what do you hate? Find a…

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“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more…

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“This is incredible. This is quite amazing because who you're honoring tonight is not only myself but the ghost of a lot…

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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.'

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The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

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…

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority