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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 4

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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

Real, Long, Important

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.25, Hamilton Books

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

Fun, Writing, Joy

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Education, Book, College

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Running, Book, People

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

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

Mean, Math, Men

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

Good Night, Sleep, Chocolate Ice Cream

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Apr 10, 2014

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Creativity, Thinking, Creative

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 09, 2015

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Crazy, Book, Writing

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

Sad, People, Special

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Jan 16, 2017

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Ideas, Energy, Next

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

But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

Soul, Lost, Found

Ray Bradbury (1975). “Long after midnight”

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Inspirational, Life, Science

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Love, Inspirational, Good Morning

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Mistake, Ignorance, Cutting

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.51, Hamilton Books

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Future, Trying, Programming

"Fictional character: Darien Fawkes". "The Invisible Man", www.imdb.com. 2000 - 2002.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Important, Important Things

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

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

Real, Cutting, Men

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Writing, Optimistic, Mirrors

"Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars". Book by Ray Bradbury, 2005.

(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

Sorry, Book, Thinking

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

Majority, Tyranny Of The Majority, Terrible

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.53, Hamilton Books

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Confidence, Courage, Travel

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Writing, Creativity, Ideas

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

Art, Creativity, Cat

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves

Dark, Past, Shadow

Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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