Ray Bradbury Quotes

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

  Ray Bradbury

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• Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

  Ray Bradbury

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• I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

  Ray Bradbury

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• Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me.After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

  Ray Bradbury

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• If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

  Ray Bradbury

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• If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

  Ray Bradbury

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• I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

  Ray Bradbury

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• You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

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• Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

  Ray Bradbury

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• We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

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• You fail only if you stop writing.

  Ray Bradbury

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  Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

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  Jump and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

  Ray Bradbury

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

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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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