1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.

Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.