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
reading boys roots
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.
believe thinking ideas
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
art creativity cat
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
running athlete order
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
kids writing evil
Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.
summer children hands
Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.
reading cutting thinking
This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?
love-is answers reason
Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.
children book kids
I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.
book reading past
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
writing intuition way
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
teaching kids writing
Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.
war car weapons
The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.
inspirational learning wings
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.