Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. 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
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
I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,… — 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
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. — 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
If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them. — 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
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
Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something… — 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
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
