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Short Quotes by Ray Bradbury
- Most of my short stories are fantasy.
- I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to…
- If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.
- Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over…
- From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.…
- Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
- Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
- 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 not a failure.…
- In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
- You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
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