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I'm not a futurist.

Ray Bradbury

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.

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We've got to dumb America up again.

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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.

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It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

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All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

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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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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

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Electronic books are junk.

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The important thing is to be in love with something.

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I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

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I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

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My business is to prevent the future.

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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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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.

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If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.

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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?'

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I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.

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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

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We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

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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.

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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

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After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

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My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

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If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

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

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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

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We're all dreamers.

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A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

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