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
fall islands laughing
Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.
running fun ideas
I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.
children littles muse
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
being-yourself fun mean
...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.
sex real war
I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers. We need theologians, who take the same basic facts and work with them and help us make do with those facts. Facts alone are not enough. It's interpretation.
hilarious flames trash
A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.
jobs sleep giving
Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.
falling-in-love fall book
Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.....
believe writing creative
I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.
art dies
We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth
running character snow
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
rain sleep night
I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.
lying book light
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
book gun loaded
A book is a loaded gun.