Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

"Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board."
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"Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board."
Ray Bradbury
"Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.."
Ray Bradbury
"They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle."
Ray Bradbury
"I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good."
Ray Bradbury
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
Ray Bradbury
"The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains."
Ray Bradbury
"There is no cause for nostalgia save the good and life-enhancing nostalgia for the present."
Ray Bradbury
"The river was very real; it held him comfortably and gave him the time at last, the leisure, to consider this month, this year, and a lifetime of years."
Ray Bradbury
"He was in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was a writer, and tonight was the Day of the Dead ceremony. He was in a little room on the second floor of a hotel, a room with wide windows and a balcony that overlooked the plaza where the children ran and yelled each morning. He heard them shouting now. And this was Mexico's Death Day. There was a smell of death all through Mexico you never got away from, no matter how far you went. No matter what you said or did, not even if you laughed or drank, did you ever get away from death in Mexico. No car went fast enough. No drink was strong enough.("The Candy Skull")"
Ray Bradbury
"Not much to say except to warn you not to get too serious about all this, if you want to become a writer of fiction in the future. If you intend to become a critic, that is a Whale of another color…Playing around with symbols, even as a critic, can be a kind of kiddish parlor game. A little of it goes a long way. There are other things of greater value in any novel or story…humanity, character analysis, truth on other levels…Good symbolism should be as natural as breathing…and as unobtrusive."
Ray Bradbury
"It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious."
Ray Bradbury
"In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping."
Ray Bradbury
"How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?"
Ray Bradbury
"Look for the little loves. Find and shape the little bitternesses."
Ray Bradbury
"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."
Ray Bradbury
"God bless the lawn mower, he thought. Who was the fool who made January first New Year’s Day? No, they should set a man to watch the grasses across a million Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa lawns, and on that morning when it was long enough for cutting, instead of ratchets and horns and yelling, there should be a great swelling symphony of lawn mowers reaping fresh grass upon the prairie lands. Instead of confetti and serpentine, people should throw grass spray at each other on the one day each year that really represents Beginning!"
Ray Bradbury
"He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in the darkness and gets up with child? The gentle, smiling ones own the good secret. Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make flesh that holds fast and binds eternity."
Ray Bradbury
"That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain."
Ray Bradbury
"To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet."
Ray Bradbury
"We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now."
Ray Bradbury
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