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
american-writer bite goes lets respond run runs stories
My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.
american-writer build cliff jump wings
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
burned intensity lived people photograph saw side wall
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
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Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.
life
Life is "trying things to see if they work.
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The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.
anyone
I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.
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Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'
time
I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.
work
There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.
whispers
Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.
incredible lunatic music source
If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.
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Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.