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
people way theater
I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
teacher inspire librarian
Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
hate fall believe
I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
stories would-be kind
There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.
creativity writing ideas
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
happiness effort miserable
You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.
fiction kind film
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.
sadness people special
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
imagination want should
Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
writing intuition way
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
creativity thinking creative
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
insanity bipolar insane
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
running athlete order
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
reading cutting thinking
This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?