How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Second, writing is survival. Any art, any good work, of course, is that.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously." [ Writer’s Digest Interview… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“First and foremost, [Writing] reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I never went to college — I don’t believe in college for writers. The thing is very dangerous. I believe too many… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I… — 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
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