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
writing skulls way
How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.
eye breathing silence
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.
serious-person people serious
I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
block writing years
I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.
machines humans human-beings
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
fire doubters
Fire the doubters out of your life.
father humorous dublin
If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.
sports morning hero
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..
world fingers
I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
beautiful dog men
We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.
alive pay life-is
The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
writing exercise self
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.
book writing library
You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.
travel falling-in-love taken
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.