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Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.
- Ray Bradbury
#Any
#Experience
#Good
#Horrible
#Way
First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
- Ray Bradbury
#Cheap
#First
#Grades
#Money
#Right
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.
- Ray Bradbury
#Congress
#Members
#Most
#Politicians
Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'
- Ray Bradbury
#America
#God
#Now
#Science
#Thank God
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.
- Ray Bradbury
#Amazing
#House
#Hungry
#Imagination
#Old
You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time.
- Ray Bradbury
#Bad
#Know
#Place
#Time
#Want
I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.
- Ray Bradbury
#Discovered
#Find
#Library
#Me
I write screenplays in the middle of the night.
- Ray Bradbury
#I Write
#Middle
#Night
#Write
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
- Ray Bradbury
#Like
#Myths
#New
#Old
#Stories
I got started as an actor when I was 12.
- Ray Bradbury
#Actor
#Got
#Started
I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.
- Ray Bradbury
#Around
#Go
#Ray
#Thinking
#Time
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.
- Ray Bradbury
#Forgotten
#Russia
#Start
#War
#World
I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'
- Ray Bradbury
#Because
#Find
#Going
#Internet
#Now
I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
- Ray Bradbury
#Days
#Go
#Library
#Three
#Week
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.
- Ray Bradbury
#Best
#Done
#Good
#Want
#World
Burroughs is crap. Crap.
- Ray Bradbury
#Crap
I don't control my writing - it controls me.
- Ray Bradbury
#Control
#Controls
#Me
#Writing
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
- Ray Bradbury
#Hollywood
#Know
#Outsider
#Think
#Writer
Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.
- Ray Bradbury
#Imagination
#Metaphor
#Scientists
#Start
If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.
- Ray Bradbury
#Found
#Liked
#Me
#Myself
#Out
Electronic books are junk.
- Ray Bradbury
#Books
#Electronic
#Junk
The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.
- Ray Bradbury
#Answer
#Fun
#People
#Stay
#Understand
There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.
- Ray Bradbury
#Creative
#Old
#Way
#Will
#Work
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.
- Ray Bradbury
#Being
#Doing
#Judges
#Look
#Ridiculous
Everything is generated through your own will power.
- Ray Bradbury
#Everything
#Own
#Power
#Through
#Will
You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
- Ray Bradbury
#Internet
#Set
#Turn
#Up
#Work
Facts are not interesting to me.
- Ray Bradbury
#Facts
#Interesting
#Me
I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
- Ray Bradbury
#Desk
#Favorite
#I Am
#Who
#Writing
The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
- Ray Bradbury
#Answer
#Career
#Love
#Matter
#Writing
I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
- Ray Bradbury
#Doing
#Dreadful
#I Think
#Job
#Think
If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
- Ray Bradbury
#Cannot
#Help
#Important
#Living
#Time
I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.
- Ray Bradbury
#Bit
#Cut
#Felt
#Life
#Off
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
- Ray Bradbury
#Girl
#Imagine
#Reading
#Short
#Story
All of my writing is God-given.
- Ray Bradbury
#God-Given
#Writing
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
- Ray Bradbury
#About
#First
#Landing
#Mars
#Stories
My goal is to entertain myself and others.
- Ray Bradbury
#Entertain
#Goal
#Myself
#Others
I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
- Ray Bradbury
#Boring
#Myself
#Philosopher
#See
I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
- Ray Bradbury
#Fun
#Have Fun
#Ideas
#Play
#Them
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
- Ray Bradbury
#Book
#Dead
#Friends
#Now
#Old
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
- Ray Bradbury
#Field
#Learn
#Own
#Young
#Your
Most of my short stories are fantasy.
- Ray Bradbury
#Fantasy
#Most
#Short
#Stories
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.
- Ray Bradbury
#Computer
#Typewriter
I don't believe in colleges and universities.
- Ray Bradbury
#Believe
#Colleges
#Universities
Libraries raised me.
- Ray Bradbury
#Libraries
#Me
#Raised
I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
- Ray Bradbury
#Anyone
#How
#Me
#Tell
#Write
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
- Ray Bradbury
#Easy
#Love Is
#Love
#Someone
#Something
Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
- Ray Bradbury
#Busy
#Credit
#Done
#Far
#More
'Fahrenheit 451' postulates a lot of things I didn't want to have happen.
- Ray Bradbury
#Happen
#Lot
#Things
#Want
When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.
- Ray Bradbury
#Born
#Old
#Radio
#Right Time
#Time
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
- Ray Bradbury
#Being
#Go
#Human Being
#Human
#Why
I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.
- Ray Bradbury
#Afraid
#Away
#Life
#People
#Toys
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
- Ray Bradbury
#Day
#Short
#Story
#Two
#Year
I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.
- Ray Bradbury
#Big
#Box
#Hollywood
#Loved
#Me
You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.
- Ray Bradbury
#Own
#Pay
#People
#Way
#Your
We are anthill men upon an anthill world.
- Ray Bradbury
#Men
#World
If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head.
- Ray Bradbury
#Brain
#History
#Look
#Road
#Work
The important thing is to be in love with something.
- Ray Bradbury
#Important
#Love
#Something
#Thing
I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.
- Ray Bradbury
#Attention
#Need
#Vindicated
#Want
I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
- Ray Bradbury
#I Love
#Love
#Motion
#Pictures
#Stage
I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.
- Ray Bradbury
#Ask
#Count
#Else
#Never
#Opinion
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
- Ray Bradbury
#Reason
#Sense
#Strong
#Successful
#Think
If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
- Ray Bradbury
#Forget
#God
#Lesson
#Never Forget
#Never
If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.
- Ray Bradbury
#Exciting
#Idea
#You
I don't do research. I never have.
- Ray Bradbury
#Never
#Research
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.
- Ray Bradbury
#About
#Embarrassed
#Men
#Personal
#Work
Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her.
- Ray Bradbury
#Friend
#Good
#Mine
#More
#Time
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.
- Ray Bradbury
#Being
#Doing
#Judges
#Ridiculous
#Well
It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
- Ray Bradbury
#Fullness
#Gives
#Inspiration
#Lack
#Us
I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.
- Ray Bradbury
#Goodness
#Inspire
#Never
#People
#Space
My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.
- Ray Bradbury
#Been
#Favorite
#Said
#Things
#Well
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.
- Ray Bradbury
#Book
#Facts
#Hatred
#People
#Real
We've got to dumb America up again.
- Ray Bradbury
#Again
#America
#Dumb
#Got
#Up
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
- Ray Bradbury
#Down
#Everything
#Finish
#Go
#Me
We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.
- Ray Bradbury
#Chance
#Civilization
#Living
#Universe
We're all dreamers.
- Ray Bradbury
#Dreamers
All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.
- Ray Bradbury
#Beautiful
#Face
#Feel
#Look
#World
When you're older you want to learn from other people.
- Ray Bradbury
#Learn
#Older
#Other
#People
#Want
The Internet is a big distraction.
- Ray Bradbury
#Big
#Distraction
#Internet
My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.
- Ray Bradbury
#Believe
#God
#I Am
#Religion
#Universe
My business is to prevent the future.
- Ray Bradbury
#Business
#Future
#Prevent
We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.
- Ray Bradbury
#Gotta
#Left
#Moon
#Never
#Space
#Travel
You fail only if you stop writing.
- Ray Bradbury
#Fail
#Only
#Stop
#Writing
#You
Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.
- Ray Bradbury
#Ear
#Everything
#Me
#Muse
#Who
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
- Ray Bradbury
#Dreams
#Grow
#People
#Want
#Will
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.
- Ray Bradbury
#Book
#Life
#My Life
#Teachers
#Women
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
- Ray Bradbury
#Got
#Government
#People
#Remember
#Today
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
#Get
#Got
#Machines
#Many
#Now
Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.
- Ray Bradbury
#Alive
#Books
#Dead
#See
#You
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
- Ray Bradbury
#Adrenaline
#Energy
#Ideas
#Know
#Me
In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.
- Ray Bradbury
#Day
#Joy
#Life
#Mirror
#Myself
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
- Ray Bradbury
#Gone
#Hiroshima
#House
#People
#Shadows
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
- Ray Bradbury
#Difficult
#Enjoy
#Keep
#Living
#Wonder
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
- Ray Bradbury
#Civilization
#Facts
#Imagination
#Important
#Knowledge
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
- Ray Bradbury
#Must
#Simply
#Them
#Things
#Try
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
- Ray Bradbury
#Alive
#Imagination
#Life
#Me
#Universe
Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
- Ray Bradbury
#Earth
#Journalism
#Keeps
#Planted
#You
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
- Ray Bradbury
#Future
#No Future
#Past
#Without
I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
- Ray Bradbury
#Born
#Coming
#Great
#Recall
#Remember
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
- Ray Bradbury
#Education
#Library
#Money
#Myself
#Week
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
- Ray Bradbury
#Democracy
#Education
#Great
#Life
#Way
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