So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily. Ray Bradbury More Quotes by Ray Bradbury More Quotes From Ray Bradbury Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs. Ray Bradbury disastertriumphtelevision Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over. Ray Bradbury nightbookpast Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Ray Bradbury runningsnowcharacter You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good. Ray Bradbury providencedreamreality May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. Ray Bradbury loveromanticworld 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. Ray Bradbury ifsreasonwriting But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again. Ray Bradbury soulfoundlost Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever. Ray Bradbury spacewantforever Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone. Ray Bradbury next-dayphonespeople Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode. Ray Bradbury creativitystoriesthinking Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. Ray Bradbury automobilepeople There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films. Ray Bradbury filmkindfiction Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless. Ray Bradbury uselessgivingyears The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere. Ray Bradbury internetrealair If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods. Ray Bradbury learningmotivationpositive You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead Ray Bradbury better-off-deadgirlwind That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing. Ray Bradbury giving-upimportantmen You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process. Ray Bradbury writingordermoving 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. Ray Bradbury windchildrenthinking When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity. Ray Bradbury homewritingbelieve
