Ray Bradbury Quotes

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.