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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 17

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When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without

When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.

Believe, Home, Writing

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

Art, Writing, Self

Ray Bradbury (1991). “On stage: a chrestomathy of his plays”, Plume

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Men, Needs, Fiction

Source: www.raybradbury.com

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

War, Car, Weapons

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.164, Univ. Press of Mississippi

When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.

Writing, Discovery, Way

Source: www.raybradbury.com

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

Thinking, Relaxation, Relax

I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

Fun, Writing, Benefits

In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.

Dream, Technology, Order

"Playboy Interview: Ray Bradbury". Interview with Ken Kelley, www.raybradbury.com. May 1996.

How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

Writing, Skulls, Way

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

Library, Literature, Film

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

Writing, Quality, Produce

The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.

Stars, Heart, Hands

"R Is for Rocket". Book by Ray Bradbury. Introduction, 1962.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

Up To You, Tvs, Internet

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.188, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Hands, Answers, Mystery

Source: www.raybradbury.com

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

Writing, Ignorance, Way

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

College, Eight, Age

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Three, Towers, Eiffel Tower

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

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

Teacher, School, Editors

Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

Running, Character, Writing

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.122, Univ. Press of Mississippi

You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.

Love, Moon, Looks

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.11, Hamilton Books

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

Silly, Territory, Primitive

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

Country, Autumn, Thinking

Ray Bradbury (2014). “The October Country”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?

Running, Rain, Fall

Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

Democracy, Want, What You Want

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.188, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

Eye, Breathing, Silence

Ray Bradbury (2013). “Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales”, p.34, Harper Collins

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