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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 8

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I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.

I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.

People, Want, Wanted

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Good Morning, Good Day, Reality

Ray Bradbury (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.

Art, Philosophy, Book

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

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.

Running, Character, Snow

I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile

Laughter, Laughing, I Smile

Ray Bradbury (1973). “When elephants last in the dooryard bloomed: celebrations for almost any day in the year”, Alfred A. Knopf

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.

Writing, Two, Verbs

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

People, Watches, Looks

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.14, Hamilton Books

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

Creativity, Thinking, Stories

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.123, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

Digging, Vigor, Fever

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk away from it and let it ferment. You ignore it and pretend you don't care. Next thing you know, the answer comes.

Answers, Care, Information

Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.

Summer, Children, Glasses

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

Missing, Needs, Fahrenheit 451 Book

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

Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.

Dog, Christmas Day

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

Fiction Stories, World, Moral

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.108, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

People, Catching, Disbelief

"A Miracle of Rare Device". Playboy, January 1962.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Writing, Men, Dreamer

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.

Running, Character, Ideas

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.123, Univ. Press of Mississippi

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Government, People, Today

"Ray Bradbury, a Great Conservative" by John Fund, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 6, 2012.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Dream, Growing Up, Writing

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

Life, Dream, Rest In Peace

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

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

Hilarious, Flames, Trash

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.291, Melville House

When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.

Baby, Falling In Love, Parenting

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Love, Writing, Ideas

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

Children, Littles, Muse

"Zen in the Art of Writing" by Ray Bradbury, (p. 45), 1992.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Fiction, Kind, Film

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