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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 16

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A day without writing was a little death.

A day without writing was a little death.

Writing, Littles

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

Long, Wish

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Apr 22, 2014

I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and-this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Plato, Book, Evil

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

Believe, Writing, Creative

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

Dangerous, Knows, Can Do

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Dream, Rest In Peace, Laughter

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

Live Life, Echoes, Voice

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.258, Melville House

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Earth, Journalism

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.

Art, Reading, Commitment

Source: www.tangentonline.com

I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

Family, Years, Apples

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

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

Library, Use, University

There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Mother, Women, Race

The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’

Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.

Writing, Four, Pages

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

Daughter, Grandchildren, Eight

Source: www.raybradbury.com

There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!

Heart, Cutting, Men

Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Mania, Paid Off, Paid

"From the archive: Ray Bradbury on life, love and Buck Rogers". Interview with John Ezard, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2012.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Morning, Fun, Typewriters

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

Answers, Letters, Love Letter

Source: www.jasonmarchi.com

Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.

Sweet, Eye, Soul

Ray Bradbury (2015). “The Halloween Tree”, p.126, Knopf Books for Young Readers

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

Girl, Wind, Better Off Dead

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.29, Hamilton Books

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

People, Automobile

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.285, Melville House

For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people.

Stars, Fall, Eye

"Something Wicked This Way Comes". Book by Ray Bradbury. Chapter 38, 1962.

Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.

People, Income, Telephones

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.127, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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