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• The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

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• The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

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• Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

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• My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

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• My goal is to entertain myself and others.

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• Most of my short stories are fantasy.

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• Libraries raised me.

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• Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

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• If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

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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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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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