Stories Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

— Ray Bradbury

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

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

— Ray Bradbury

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

— Ray Bradbury

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

— Ray Bradbury

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

— Ray Bradbury

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

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

— Ray Bradbury

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

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a…

— Ray Bradbury

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the…

— Ray Bradbury

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

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

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I…

— Ray Bradbury

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

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my…

— Ray Bradbury

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

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and…

— Ray Bradbury

I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing…

— Ray Bradbury

For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan…

— Ray Bradbury

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

— Ray Bradbury

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

— Ray Bradbury

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

All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff.…

— Ray Bradbury

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never…

— Ray Bradbury

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

How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the…

— Ray Bradbury

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing…

— Ray Bradbury

In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever…

— Ray Bradbury

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes…

— Ray Bradbury

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you…

— Ray Bradbury

The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that…

— Ray Bradbury

You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to…

— Ray Bradbury

I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to…

— Ray Bradbury