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!)
And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there. - Ray Bradbury
And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.
- Ray Bradbury
You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love. - Ray Bradbury
You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas. - Ray Bradbury
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone… - Ray Bradbury
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone…
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Bradbury
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. - Ray Bradbury
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything. - Ray Bradbury
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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