What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of expressing both the positive and negative experiences in our lives.
Ray Bradbury's quote encourages us to reflect on the significant moments in our lives, both good and bad, and to find the courage to openly share them. By recognizing and articulating these experiences, we can better understand ourselves and connect with others, fostering deeper relationships and personal growth.
In practice
In a motivational speech encouraging people to share their stories.
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!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.
People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.
I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction.
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