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
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.
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.
leadership kings trying
They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.
writing cutting thinking
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.