Ray Bradbury Quotes About Short Stories

Quotes about: Short Stories

• Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Stories, Week

• You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Years, Two

• If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Mean, Stories

• I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

  Ray Bradbury

  Girl, Reading, Home

  "From the archive: Ray Bradbury on life, love and Buck Rogers". Interview with John Ezard, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2012.

• I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Math, Men

• Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Trying, Stories

• Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.

  Ray Bradbury

  Phones, Next Day, People

• The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Years, Gears

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Waiting, Stories

  Source: www.jasonmarchi.com

• Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

  Ray Bradbury

  Night, Bed, Three

• Most of my short stories are fantasy.

  Ray Bradbury

  Stories, Fantasy, Short Story

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