I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for… — 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’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look… — 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
He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago… — 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
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to… — 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 Image
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 Image
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 than you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
