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
cat writing my-favorite
I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
play self secret
I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.
good-morning good-day reality
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
flower garden thinking
Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.
stupid land mars
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
writing years writing-every-day
I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.
dream growing-up writing
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
love writing ideas
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
machines internet cellphone
We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
twelve hours shots
The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
important important-things
The important thing is to be in love with something.
passion typewriters worry
My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.
letting-go running writing
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
book egypt smell
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.