1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.

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