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Ray Bradbury Quotes about Writing - Page 2

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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

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

Writing, Billions, Bad Word

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

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

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

Writing, Two, Verbs

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

Writing, Men, Dreamer

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

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

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

Passion, Writing, Careers

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

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

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

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

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

Writing, Writers Block, Writer's Block

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

Love You, Writing, Want

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

Book, Writing, Sleep

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

Running, Writing, Hands

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

All of my writing is God-given.

Writing, Given

"An Interview With Sci-Fi Legend Ray Bradbury". Interview with Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2004.

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

Love You, Writing, Remember

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

Writing, Trying, Stories

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Reading, Writing, Worth Reading

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

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year

Writing, Years, Two

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.

Character, Writing, Fake

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

Writing, Mean, Stories

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