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• Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

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• I used to take my short stories to girls’ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

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• I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

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• I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

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• I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

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• I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

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• I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

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• I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

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• I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

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• I don’t have a computer. A computer’s a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

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• I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

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• Facts are not interesting to me.

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• All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

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• All of my writing is God-given.

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• The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

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• The important thing is to be in love with something.

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• My business is to prevent the future.

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• If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

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• It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

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• I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

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Ray Bradbury (114)

Birth:	22nd August, 1920
Death:	5th June, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers. Many of Bradbury's works have been adapted into television shows or films.

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