That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What traitors books can be! you think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for… — 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
Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them. — 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
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I sat and three hours later realized I had been seized by an idea that started short but grew to wild size… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. 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 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