Ray Bradbury Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Positive Thinking, Medicine

  "Legendary Sci-Fi Author Ray Bradbury Passed Away Today at Age 91" by Ethan Anderton, www.firstshowing.net. June 6, 2012.

• This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Writing, Cutting

• Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Writing, Joy

• 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

  Writing, Optimistic, Mirrors

  "Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars". Book by Ray Bradbury, 2005.

• We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dark, Simple, Light

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Medicine for Melancholy”, Spectra

• Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Thinking, Wind

• I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

  Ray Bradbury

  Block, Writing, Years

• Joy is the grace we say to God.

  Ray Bradbury

  Joy, Grace

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.130, Melville House

• I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Mean, Typewriters

  "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

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