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Ray Bradbury Quotes about Writing - Page 3

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When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

Writing, Cutting, Thinking

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

Writing, Eye, Skins

Ray Bradbury (2013). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.4, Harper Collins

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Art, Writing, Ideas

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.284, Melville House

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Father, Writing, Dry Bones

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.

Real, Writing, Mph

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

Book, Writing, Library

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

Reading, Writing, School

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

Believe, Taken, Writing

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And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

Writing, Doe, Alive

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

Don't talk about it; write.

Writing

Write what you love and love what you write.

Good Morning, Writing, Doing What You Love

"Ray Bradbury continues his great love, writing". Interview With Ryan E. Smith, www.toledoblade.com. February 15, 2009.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

Writing, Dies

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.

Teacher, Writing, College

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.217, Melville House

To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.

Beautiful, Book, Writing

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

Writing, Gun, Knives

A day without writing was a little death.

Writing, Littles

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

Believe, Writing, Creative

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The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’

Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.

Writing, Four, Pages

When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.

Believe, Home, Writing

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

Art, Writing, Self

Ray Bradbury (1991). “On stage: a chrestomathy of his plays”, Plume

When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.

Writing, Discovery, Way

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I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

Fun, Writing, Benefits

How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

Writing, Skulls, Way

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

Writing, Quality, Produce

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