You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You… — 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 came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my… — 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
“We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over… — 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 don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize… — 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
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
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
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