Ray Bradbury Quotes About Metaphor

Quotes about: Metaphor

• (...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

  Ray Bradbury

  Smile, Cat, Pride

• Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Religious, Wall, Passion

• Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

  Ray Bradbury

  Ideas, Metaphor, Results

• You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Metaphor, Organize

• I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

  Ray Bradbury

  Strong, Successful, Thinking

• I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Dream, Morning

• Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

  Ray Bradbury

  Stories, Metaphor, Comic

• I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

  Ray Bradbury

  Giving, Young Writers, Metaphor

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