Ray Bradbury

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

You don’t have to worry about the future, you don’t worry about the past – you just explode.

Ray Bradbury

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it’s aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don’t care what it is. Then you walk away from it and let it ferment. You ignore it and pretend you don’t care. Next thing you know, the answer comes.

Ray Bradbury

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

Ray Bradbury

You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

Ray Bradbury

You’ve got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Ray Bradbury

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

Ray Bradbury