Ray Bradbury Writing Quotations [Page 2]

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.