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
axes years circles
The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!
complete-life reluctant ifs
If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
book boys land
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
writing cutting thinking
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
silence dawn emptiness
All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.
inspiration giving fullness
It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
school high-school self-education
When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
past should-have half
Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.
earth journalism
Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
morning fun typewriters
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
beautiful book writing
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.
what-you-love
Love what you do and do what you love.
firsts stories mars
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
book smell hands
A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.