You fail only if you stop writing. Ray Bradbury More Quotes by Ray Bradbury More Quotes From Ray Bradbury Creativity is a continual surprise. Ray Bradbury creativitysurprisecreative I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. Ray Bradbury partyhatethinking I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers. We need theologians, who take the same basic facts and work with them and help us make do with those facts. Facts alone are not enough. It's interpretation. Ray Bradbury realwarsex 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 letting-gowritingrunning Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up. Ray Bradbury verbswritingtwo Do what you love, don't do anything else. Ray Bradbury what-you-love That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain. Ray Bradbury twilightraincountry The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants. Ray Bradbury importantwantlove-you I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going. Ray Bradbury watchespeoplelooks If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell. Ray Bradbury go-to-hellhellifs I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it. Ray Bradbury wantlove-youwriting I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury buddhismwingsthinking I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room. Ray Bradbury dinosaursindividualityspace Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness Ray Bradbury consciousnesssometimesthinking I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control. Ray Bradbury selfsecretplay Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. Ray Bradbury good-morninggood-dayreality Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen. Ray Bradbury tyranny-of-the-majorityup-to-youplay Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder. Ray Bradbury platomenblood You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year Ray Bradbury writingtwoyears If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury motivationalinspirationallife
