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
children winter islands
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.
writing facts rich
We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
balance done fats
Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
long coward way
Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.
love-you writing want
I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.
running men trying
Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.
book reading funny-things
I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.
real air internet
The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
helping martian-chronicles
I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.
stupidity lasts fool
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
hurt moving mean
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
mean exclamation-points people
...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.
writing years poetry
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!
positive principles method
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.