Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull. — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things… — 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
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
Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that… — 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
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
We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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
We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups… — 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
