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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 11

All Quotes Acting Adventure Age Art Autumn Balance Bones Censorship Character Children College Community Consciousness Country Creativity Culture Darkness Death Dying Earth Effort Envy Evil Failing Falling In Love Fear Fighting Film Fun Giving Good Morning Halloween Hate Heart Hell High School Home House Hurt Ignorance Imagination Inspirational Internet Joy Laughter Learning Legacy Letting Go Life Literature Love Lying Madness Magic Mankind Metaphor Moon Morning Motivational Muse Passion Past Philosophy Pleasure Quality Rain Reading Reality Rejection Risk Running Sadness School Science Science Fiction Seven Shame Silence Skins Sleep Son Soul Spring Students Summer Teaching This Day Today Travel Universe Waiting Wall War Water Wife Wine Wit Worry Writing

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year

Writing, Years, Two

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.

Character, Writing, Fake

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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.

Writing, Mean, Stories

When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

Writing, Cutting, Thinking

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

Writing, Eye, Skins

Ray Bradbury (2013). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.4, Harper Collins

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Art, Writing, Ideas

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.284, Melville House

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.

Dream, Wall, Years

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.126, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Father, Writing, Dry Bones

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.

Real, Writing, Mph

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

Beautiful, Looks, World

"Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'". "Remembrances", www.npr.org. June 8, 2012.

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

Book, Writing, Library

In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.

Love, Sorry, Mean

"Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203". Interview with Sam Weller, www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Library, Find Me

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.275, Melville House

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Inspirational, Life, Art

Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.

Moving, Knowing, Trying

Ray Bradbury (2017). “Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Goal

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

Worry, Way, Reputation

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

Believe, Earth, Universe

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

Science, Race, Volcanoes

Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.

Inspirational, Letting Go, Moving

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

Stupidity, Lasts, Fool

Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

Running, Buddhist, Book

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

Civilization, Pieces

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.42, Hamilton Books

And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.

Silly, Men, Emotional

Ray Bradbury (2015). “Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man”, p.48, HarperCollins UK

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