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Ray Bradbury Quotes about Writing - Page 4

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I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

Writing, Ignorance, Way

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

Running, Character, Writing

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.122, Univ. Press of Mississippi

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Writing, Important, Helping

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

Love, Writing, People

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

Lying, Writing, Intellectual

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

Writing, Waiting, Stories

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People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

Writing, People, Mind

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

I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.

Fall, Writing, Boys

Source: www.raybradbury.com

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

Writing, Reality, Past

Source: www.raybradbury.com

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

Writing, Thinking, Sometimes

Source: blankonblank.org

Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.

Writing, Kids, Evil

Source: www.raybradbury.com

There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.

Home, Writing, Thinking

Source: www.raybradbury.com

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

Writing, Honest, Faster

Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.

Home, Writing, Night

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

Writing, Mind, Stories

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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.

Writing, Mean, Typewriters

"Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.

Writing, Exercise, Self

"Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional". mentalfloss.com. June 15, 2012.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Writing, Writing Every Day

"Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury dies" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. June 9, 2012.

Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it... I write for fun.

Running, Fun, Writing

Love is easy, and I love writing.

Writing, Love Is, Secret Love

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Writing, Years, Long

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

Book, Writing, Library

Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.

Writing, Mean, Fighting

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Writing, Exercise, Scary

Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Writing

"Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203". Interview with Sam Weller, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2010.

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