How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. — 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
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 best sculpture, like the head of Nefertiti, says again and again, "The Beautiful One was here, is here, and will be… — 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
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
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
There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when… — 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 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
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
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like… — 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
When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower… — 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've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I’ve tried to teach my writing friends that there are two arts: number one, getting a thing done; and then, the second… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I leave you now at the bottom of your own stair, at half after midnight, with a pad, a pen, and a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I never went to college. I don’t believe in college for writers. I think too many professors are too opinionated and too… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What do you want more than anything else in the world? What do you love, or what do you hate? Find a… — 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 want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out… — 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
