If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice,... — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She… — 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
A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam. — 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
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