Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradburywas an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 August 1920
CityLos Angeles, IL
CountryUnited States of America
stupidity lasts fool
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
helping martian-chronicles
I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.
writing facts rich
We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
mistake book insane
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!
writing reason ifs
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.
balance done fats
Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
writing exercise scary
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
confused cry let-me
Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.
philosophical men thinking
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
boys pockets magician
Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.
summer autumn july
If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.
here-and-there calling madness
God, here and there, makes madness a calling.
able fool looks
You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
balance fiction cliffs
Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.