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
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.
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?