Ray Bradbury Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

• 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 must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Crazy, Book, Writing

• How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Creativity, Ideas
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  We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Writing

  "Zen in the Art of Writing". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1990.

• You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Writing, Reality

• I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Ideas, Design

• Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Careers, Inspire

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Intuition, Way

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Love, Inspirational, Good Morning

• If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

  Ray Bradbury

  Faith, Morning, Teaching

  "The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing". 2010.

• Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Men, Dreamer

• You fail only if you stop writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Failing, Inspiration To Write

• 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

• If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Growing Up, Writing

• 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.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Writing, Sleep

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

• You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Acceptance, Rejection

• First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

  Ray Bradbury

  Hero, Writing, Want

• I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Cat, My Favorite

• You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, Writing, School

• I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Writing, Sleep

• It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Billions, Bad Word

• Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Light, White

• If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Crazy, Writing, Reality

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