“The good writers touch life. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I had no way to stop . I did not write Fahrenheit 451, it wrote me.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that… — 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
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person... — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Lived in Chicago, survived in New York, brooded in Detroit, floundered in lots of places, arrived here late, after living in libraries… — 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 first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Be pragmatic, then. If you’re not happy with the way your writing has gone, you might give my method a try. If… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are… — 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
“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 use a library the same way I’ve been describing the creative process as a writer — I don’t go in with… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre… — 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
“For there comes a time in the day’s occupations when old Money Writer falls so in love with an idea that he… — 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
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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