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The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love. (Ray Bradbury)
When you're older you want to learn from other people. View quote
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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? View quote
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it. View quote
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All of my writing is God-given. View quote
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them. View quote
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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. View quote
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. View quote
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When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. View quote
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You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn. View quote
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I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. (Ray Bradbury)
I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. View quote
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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. View quote
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Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. View quote
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I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people. View quote
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Journalism keeps you planted in the earth. View quote
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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. View quote
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Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. View quote
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In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. View quote
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars. View quote
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I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. (Ray Bradbury)
The important thing is to be in love with something. View quote
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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. View quote
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My business is to prevent the future. View quote
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There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people. View quote
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