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
book reading funny-things
I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.
real air internet
The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
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.
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.
hurt moving mean
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
mean exclamation-points people
...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.
writing years poetry
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!
positive principles method
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
art emotional people
This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.
writing ideas heard
I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.
stars lying years
This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.
halloween doors hands
One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more...
rain air land
And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds.
fun believe people
I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.