I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Teachers say if you write a story you must never name what you’re trying to write. Just do it. When it’s over… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The ideas will follow me. When they're off-guard, and ready to be born, I'll turn around and grab them.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The best sculpture, like the head of Nefertiti, says again and again, "The Beautiful One was here, is here, and will be… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It is a wise writer who knows his own subconcious." And not only knows it but lets it speak of the world… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I am a passionate, not an intellectual writer, which means my characters must plunge ahead of me to live the story” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — 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