Quotes from Ray Bradbury

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

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

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

Jump and let's build our wings on the way down

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we'd die, we'd wander around and sleep like cats.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Evil has only the power we give it.

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

Be your own self. Love what YOU love.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

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

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.