Ray Bradbury

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Letting go is not giving up.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Every time I think I have reached the peak, I look up and see I still have a ways to go. But I look back and see just how far I have come.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories