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
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.
running fun writing
Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it... I write for fun.
gone-away gone ritual
The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
people automobile
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
live-life voice echoes
At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!