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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 7

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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Letting Go, Running, Writing

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

The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.

Love You, Important, Want

Source: alibi.com

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

Book, House, Burning

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

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

Writing, Billions, Bad Word

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

Teenager, Twenties, Seven

"Dandelion Wine". Book by Ray Bradbury, p. 142, 1957.

We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.

Children, Past, Worry

Ray Bradbury (1973). “Mars and the mind of man”

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

Real, Air, Internet

Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.

Book, Past, Night

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

My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.

Passion, Typewriters, Worry

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

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

Buddhism, Thinking, Wings

"Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury on God, 'monsters and angels'" by John Blake, CNN: Living, August 02, 2010.

You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the work done. For I believe that eventually quantity will make for quality.

Believe, Writing, Quality

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

Whispering, Shouting, Worst

"Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1990.

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

Running, Writing, Sleep

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

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, Envy

Ray Bradbury (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

Running, Fun, Air

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.306, Melville House

I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Years, Wings, Voice

Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

Self, Play, Secret

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

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

Hell, Go To Hell, Ifs

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

Silence, Down And, Speak

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.79, Hamilton Books

Those who don't build must burn.

Fahrenheit 451 Book, Delinquents

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

If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.

Summer, Autumn, July

Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to hell, don't you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.

Children, People, Helping

Source: www.tangentonline.com

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

Mean, Exclamation Points, People

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

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

Technology, Government, Thank God

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.28, Hamilton Books

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Falling In Love, Travel, Taken

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