Ray Bradbury Cool & famous Quotes by

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

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• Writing

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

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• Writing

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

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• Life

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

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• Inspirational

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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• Books

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

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• Books

It doesn't matter what you do...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.

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• Inspirational

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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• Science

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

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• Inspirational

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

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• Books

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

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• Life

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

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• Books

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

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• Time

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

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• Truth

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

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• Life

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.

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• Inspirational

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

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• Relationships

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

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• Writing

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

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• Books

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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• Writing

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

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• Life

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

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• Humor

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

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• Inspirational

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

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• Writing