I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. — 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
“We must take arms each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn’t it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 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
“The ideas will follow me. When they're off-guard, and ready to be born, I'll turn around and grab them.” — 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
“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
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading. — 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
“First and foremost, [Writing] reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously." [ Writer’s Digest Interview… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It is a wise writer who knows his own subconcious." And not only knows it but lets it speak of the world… — 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
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
