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
firsts bigs ifs
Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
writing reason ifs
I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.
hell ifs go-to-hell
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell,
complete-life reluctant ifs
If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
book reason ifs
There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
alive remember ifs
I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!
reading writing ifs
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
ignorance ifs
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
american-writer build cliff jump wings
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
cannot enemy simply thinking
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cannot try to do things. You simply must do things.
creativity enemy simply thinking
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
autograph collectors days dreams funny odd strange tribes waited
I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
build cliffs jump wings
Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
fine good wonderful writer
She was a wonderful poet, a good short-story writer and a fine novelist.