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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 10

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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

Writing, Writers Block, Writer's Block

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

Love You, Writing, Want

This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

Art, Emotional, People

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

People, Want, Computer

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

Morning, Thinking, Yesterday

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

Teacher, Fiction, Fables

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.

Children, Thinking, Wind

Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.

Funny, Baby, Stupid

"Ray Bradbury Is on Fire!". Interview with James Hibberd, www.salon.com. August 29, 2001.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

Book, Writing, Sleep

You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.

Names, Goal, Target

Source: www.tangentonline.com

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.

Plato, Men, Blood

Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.

Life Is Like, Underwear, Should

"A Graveyard for Lunatics". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1990.

You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.

Thinking, Feet, Important

"Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

Running, Writing, Hands

Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, Simon and Schuster

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Source: www.avclub.com

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

Dream, Reality, Providence

Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Ignorance, People, World

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.74, Hamilton Books

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Strong, Successful, Thinking

The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.

Thinking, Average, People

"Fahrenheit 451". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

All of my writing is God-given.

Writing, Given

"An Interview With Sci-Fi Legend Ray Bradbury". Interview with Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2004.

Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. Shared and once again shared experience.

Pain, Eye, Night

Ray Bradbury (2017). “Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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.'

Love You, Writing, Remember

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

Judging, Ridiculous, Executioners

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

Writing, Trying, Stories

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Reading, Writing, Worth Reading

"I Graduated from the Library: An Interview with Ray Bradbury". Interview with Brendan Dowling, publiclibrariesonline.org. November/December 2002.

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