Ray Bradbury Quotes

» Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

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

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

» Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

» The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

» My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

» There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

» If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

» I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

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

» 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.

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

» We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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

» You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

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

» If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

» We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

» I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

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

» Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

» You fail only if you stop writing.

» We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

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

» Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

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

» Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

» 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.

» Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

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