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Ray Bradbury Biography

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction.

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I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.

Dream, Long, Night, Nights, Strange, Used

Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.

Giving, Motivated, Napoleon, Useless, Year, Years

If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to hell, don't you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.

Children, Criticize, Help, Helping, Kind, People

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.

Grow, Night, Running, Sleep, Writing

The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.

Dark, Greek, Hmm, Light, Philosophy, Savior

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers. "

Answers, Hands, Mystery, Say

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.

Action, Character, Remember, Run, Running, Snow

The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.

Average, Bombard, People, Substitutes, Thinking

Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs.

Certain, Down, Needs, References, Son, Sugar

In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you.

Back, Book, Catch, Pitch, Running, Sunset

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

Away, Eye, Possibility, Skins, Writers, Writing

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.

Believe, Dances, Interfere, Passionate, Stories, Way

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

Life, Writing, Writing Every Day, Years

Good writers touch life often.

Good, Good Writers, Life, Touch, Writers

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Down, Inspirational, Learning, Way, Wings

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

Digest, Numbers, Quality, Thing, Three, Two

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

Dad, Odd, Said, Thinking, Truth, Voice

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

Book, Books, Boys, Land, Loved

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.

Continent, People, Stopped, Venice, Wagons

Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

Human, Humans, Inhuman, Martian Chronicles, Recognize

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