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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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Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.

Character, Dialogue, Fake, Learn, Writing

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

Business, Fun, Joy, Writing

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

Book, Cairo, Fire, Rivers, Sky

I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

Believe, Certain, Emotional, Live, Men, Six

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Influences, Kind, Spread, Stories, Women, Would Be

The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’

Beautiful, Bore, Thinking, Typewriter, Writing

Good writers touch life often.

Good, Good Writers, Life, Touch, Writers

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Book, Magic, Patches, Say, Together, Universe

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

Beautiful, Filled, Inspirational, Knowing, Stuff, Writing

Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.

Crazy, Creative, Dumb, Mess, Smart, Writing

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

Eye, Gigantic, Irises, Stretched, World

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Civilization, Facts, Imagination, Important, Knowledge

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Love, Reading, Worth Reading, Write, Writing

Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment. ' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.

Book, Play, Real, Scepticism, Shape, Thank

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

Creativity, Simply, Things, Thinking Of You, Writing

Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.

Dog, Goodbye, Kitchen, Morning, Returns

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

Children, Philosopher, Renew, Said, Space, Wonder

Action is hope. There is no hope without action.

Action, Hope, No Hope

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

Drown, Knowing, Saving, Shore

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Fiction, Men, Needs, Science, Women

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