The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes. Ray Bradbury More Quotes by Ray Bradbury More Quotes From Ray Bradbury Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life. Ray Bradbury imaginationshouldwant I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. Ray Bradbury programmingfuturetrying 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. Ray Bradbury crazywritingbook The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. Ray Bradbury inspirationallifescience Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. Ray Bradbury learn-to-let-goshouldletting-go Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. Ray Bradbury weekstorieswriting Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. Ray Bradbury trustinspiringfall I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be. Ray Bradbury hatebelievefall Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ray Bradbury writingjoyfun I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me. Ray Bradbury designwritingideas You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury confidencecouragetravel I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools. Ray Bradbury takenmenthinking I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket. Ray Bradbury smellnicebook You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. Ray Bradbury cuttingignorancemistake It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime. Ray Bradbury cuttingrealmen If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. Ray Bradbury ignoranceifs Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ray Bradbury dreaminspirationallife Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. Ray Bradbury careerswritinginspire An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience. Ray Bradbury athleterunningorder How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure. Ray Bradbury creativitywritingideas
