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
firsts grades lots-of-money
First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
believe writing home
When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.
running real book
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.
eye night gentle
Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.
writing four pages
Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.
people want computer
I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?
past worry
You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.
metaphor organize
You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
fiction labels fantasy
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
civilization imagination important
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
ideas metaphor results
Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.
joy grace
Joy is the grace we say to God.
book hands elbows
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.
rain sky light
And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.