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Ray Bradbury Quotes about Writing

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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

Writing, Cat, My Favorite

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Inspirational, Beautiful, Writing

"Zen in the Art of Writing". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1990.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Writing, Failing, Inspiration To Write

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Writing, Acceptance, Rejection

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Writing, Stories, Week

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity

If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Crazy, Writing, Reality

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

Writing, Culture, Treasure

"Zen in the Art of Writing". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1992.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Writing, Groove, Feudalism

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Writing, Careers, Inspire

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

Writing, Intuition, Way

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

Writing, Ideas, Design

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

Teaching, Writing, Kids

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

Writing, Years, Poetry

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

Fun, Writing, Joy

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

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.

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

Writing, Creativity, Ideas

The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

Writing, Forever, Lasts

This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?

Reading, Writing, Cutting

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Inspirational, Writing, Reality

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

Hero, Writing, Want

What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.

Writing, Effort, Bird

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

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

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