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If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

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

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

Ray Bradbury
Writing, Facts, Rich

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Ray Bradbury
Writing, Ideas, Heard

I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!

Ray Bradbury
Passion, Writing, Names
Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

Ray Bradbury
Real, Writing, Rejection

I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

Ray Bradbury
Block, Writing, Years

Write. Don't think. Relax.

Ray Bradbury
Writing, Thinking, Relax

It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated

Ray Bradbury
Dream, Writing, Thinking
Source: blankonblank.org

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

Ray Bradbury
Writing, Years, Writing Every Day
Source: www.avclub.com

Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.

Ray Bradbury
Crazy, Smart, Writing
Source: www.raybradbury.com

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

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

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Ray Bradbury
Real, Book, Writing
Source: alibi.com

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