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
play radio television
We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.
happiness effort miserable
You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.
real imagination despair
A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.
teacher inspire librarian
Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
brain intellectual needs
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
writing ideas needs
I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
girl sex book
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.
real long important
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
imagination want should
Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
real cutting men
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.
philosophy positive-thinking medicine
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
writing thinking sometimes
Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.
inspirational writing reality
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
believe school college
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.