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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 9

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Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

Running, Character, Snow

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Passion, Writing, Careers

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

Intellectual, Brain, Needs

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

Jobs, Sleep, Giving

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

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

Girl, Boys, Forget

Source: blankonblank.org

Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.

Answers, Mystery

Ray Bradbury (2002). “I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Salmon Publishing

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

World

Speech at Brown University, 1995.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

Writing, Light, White

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.

Writing, People, Worry

In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you.

Running, Book, Sunset

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

You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.

Moving, Writing, Order

Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.

Phones, Next Day, People

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

Men, Games, Video

"Ray Bradbury Is on Fire!". Interview with James Hibberd, www.salon.com. August 29, 2001.

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

Real, Imagination, Despair

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.163, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.

Crazy, Men, Talking

Source: blankonblank.org

I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.

Fun, Believe, People

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

Book, Fire, Sky

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

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Machines, Internet, Cellphone

"Ray Bradbury Hates Big Government: ‘Our Country Is in Need of a Revolution’" by Susan King, herocomplex.latimes.com. August 16, 2010.

Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.

Night, Land, Special

Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.13, Harper Collins

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Writing, Breathing, Stories

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

Art, Dies

"Do Smarter Politics Make for Better Films?" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. December 2, 2011.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

Writing, Reason, Ifs

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

Live Life, Answers, Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury (1950). “The Martian Chronicles”

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

Inspiration, Giving, Fullness

"Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 8, 2012.

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

Being Yourself, Fun, Eye

Ray Bradbury (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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