Ray Bradbury

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‘Do this, do that,’ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Ray Bradbury

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

Ray Bradbury

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

Ray Bradbury

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

Ray Bradbury

Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don’t have enough brains to have your good taste.

Ray Bradbury

Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.

Ray Bradbury

Good writers touch life often.

Ray Bradbury

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

Ray Bradbury

He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

Ray Bradbury

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

Ray Bradbury