1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

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

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 writer."[1967 interview]

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again...

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.