Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread. Ray Bradbury More Quotes by Ray Bradbury More Quotes From Ray Bradbury Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight. Ray Bradbury eightcollegeage 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. Ray Bradbury ignorancewritingway My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this. Ray Bradbury passiontypewritersworry Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers. Ray Bradbury intellectualbrainneeds Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks. Ray Bradbury winesummerfall Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way. Ray Bradbury fatherchildrensex When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. Ray Bradbury cuttingwritingthinking The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot. Ray Bradbury criticismmissingyears If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to hell, don't you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love. Ray Bradbury helpingchildrenpeople The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so. Ray Bradbury lastsforeverwriting We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. Ray Bradbury earthbeautifulmen Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it. Ray Bradbury intellectualdrinkingbeer Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. Shared and once again shared experience. Ray Bradbury paineyenight The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. Ray Bradbury typewritersmorningfun The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap. Ray Bradbury tv-newstvsdanger Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books. Ray Bradbury readingteachingbook I shall remain on Mars and read a book. Ray Bradbury marsbook This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion. Ray Bradbury emotionalpeopleart If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. Ray Bradbury crazywritingreality 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 telephonesnamesbook
