Ray Bradbury
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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
life
Life is "trying things to see if they work.
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.
autographs front marlene pictures took
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.
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.
imagination boring imagine
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.
and-love should what-you-love
Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
courage humor greatness
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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.
whispering shouting worst
What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
hilarious flames trash
A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.
vigor fever peaches
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
zest names creating
Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.
what-you-love
Do what you love, don't do anything else.
edgar-allen
Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.