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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 6

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I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.

Believe, Stories, Passionate

Heaven is a house with porch lights.

Light, House, Heaven

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

Art, War, Writing

FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Aug 27, 2014

I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers. We need theologians, who take the same basic facts and work with them and help us make do with those facts. Facts alone are not enough. It's interpretation.

Sex, Real, War

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

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

Book, Reading, Color

Do what you love, don't do anything else.

What You Love

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

I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

Book, Mars

Ray Bradbury (1951). “The illustrated man”, Spectra

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.

Nature, Adventure, Filled Up

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.69, Hamilton Books

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

Two, Numbers, Quality

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

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Power, Will Power

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

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.

Country, Twilight, Rain

Ray Bradbury (2013). “The October Country”, p.7, Harper Collins

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

Summer, Flower, Smell

A life's work should be based on love.

Should

Barnes & Nobel Santa Monica Promenade Book Signing, 2008.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Book, Magic, Together

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.39, Hamilton Books

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

Lonely, World, Fame

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

Farenheit 451

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

I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

Religious, Believe, Miracle

AARP Magazine, July-August 2008.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Doe, Muse

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.

Teacher, Writing, School

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

Real, School, Boys

"Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews". Book by Sam Weller, 2010.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

Book, Dust, Pages

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Teaching, Lessons, Never Forget

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

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

Life, Travel, Adventure

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

Thinking

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2014). “Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview: And other Conversations”, p.11, Melville House

The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Miracle, Alive, Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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