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
girl reading home
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
fields young
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
rejection addresses failing
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
night three stories
Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.
writing four pages
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.
long want enough
I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
autumn people
Beware the autumn people
firsts stories mars
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
events middle made
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
wind secret-places secret
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
long coward way
Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.
writing years poetry
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!
morning start-the-day cry
And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.
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.