Writing Quote by Ray Bradbury

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

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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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…

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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give…

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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.'

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As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

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“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 do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A…

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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…

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I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…

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The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

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We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

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