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
death loss thinking
Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.
halloween boys months
First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.
people world kind
I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.
writing acceptance rejection
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
fall found-you perfect
Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
race people insane
The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.
writing discovery way
When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.
running writing hands
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
father writing dry-bones
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
art writing self
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
love-you important want
The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.
ideas next energy
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
writing breathing stories
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
inspirational life being-single
Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.