Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. Ray Bradbury More Quotes by Ray Bradbury More Quotes From Ray Bradbury It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. Ray Bradbury marslandstupid You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. Ray Bradbury rejectionacceptancewriting A life's work should be based on love. Ray Bradbury should Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them. Ray Bradbury homefunbelieve It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. Ray Bradbury billionsbad-wordwriting Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer! Ray Bradbury poetrywritingyears The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. Ray Bradbury assfoolbook Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. Ray Bradbury crazy-peoplebipolarinsanity I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything. Ray Bradbury wantwantedpeople The important thing is to be in love with something. Ray Bradbury important-thingsimportant If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape. Ray Bradbury teachingfaithmorning I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school. Ray Bradbury realboysschool 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 optimisticmirrorswriting (in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry. Ray Bradbury sorrybookthinking 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 nextenergyideas I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it. Ray Bradbury passionatestoriesbelieve The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health. Ray Bradbury diggingfevervigor Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in. Ray Bradbury glassessummerchildren Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic. Ray Bradbury runningsnowcharacter There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. Ray Bradbury libraryuseschool
