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
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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.
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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
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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.
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In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.
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I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.
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Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.
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.