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
world stories type
There is only one type of story in the world-your story.
ability grows
The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow
events middle made
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
writing home night
Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.
knowing saving shore
Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
mother reality mad
Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.
moon
It could reach up and grab the moon.
laughter laughing i-smile
I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile
doe muse
I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
soul relaxation poet
And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
fun play ideas
I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
writing thinking looks
If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
people want ask-me
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.
My business is to prevent the future.