Writing Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Write. Don't think. Relax.

— Ray Bradbury

You fail only if you stop writing.

— Ray Bradbury

Good writers touch life often.

— Ray Bradbury

Write what you love and love what you write.

— Ray Bradbury

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

— Ray Bradbury

Love is easy, and I love writing.

— Ray Bradbury

All of my writing is God-given.

— Ray Bradbury

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

— Ray Bradbury

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

— Ray Bradbury

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

— Ray Bradbury

“Second, writing is survival. Any art, any good work, of course, is that.”

— Ray Bradbury

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

— Ray Bradbury

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

— Ray Bradbury

“The good writers touch life. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.”

— Ray Bradbury

“I had no way to stop . I did not write Fahrenheit 451, it wrote me.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”

— Ray Bradbury

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something…

— 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

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

— Ray Bradbury

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't…

— Ray Bradbury

“The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope…

— Ray Bradbury

“Teachers say if you write a story you must never name what you’re trying to write. Just do it. When it’s over…

— Ray Bradbury

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to…

— Ray Bradbury

“The ideas will follow me. When they're off-guard, and ready to be born, I'll turn around and grab them.”

— Ray Bradbury

Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot…

— Ray Bradbury

“What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you…

— Ray Bradbury

Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest.…

— Ray Bradbury

Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as…

— Ray Bradbury

“Where did I find the courage to rebel, change my life, live alone? I don't want to over-estimate all this, but damn…

— Ray Bradbury

Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the…

— Ray Bradbury

I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to…

— Ray Bradbury

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are…

— Ray Bradbury

“In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.…

— Ray Bradbury

“This is incredible. This is quite amazing because who you're honoring tonight is not only myself but the ghost of a lot…

— Ray Bradbury

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

I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to…

— 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

“I never went to college — I don’t believe in college for writers. The thing is very dangerous. I believe too many…

— 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

Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old…

— Ray Bradbury