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
past two half
I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past—a combination of both.
daggers half march
They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.
past should-have half
Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.
My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.
I got started as an actor when I was 12.
I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.
friend good spend time
Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her.
novelists
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
best good
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.
I don't control my writing - it controls me.
cable jurors major
Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
incredible lunatic music source
If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.
include men notion personal supposed work
If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.
gotta left reinvest travel
We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.