"Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation." - Ray Bradbury
Zen in the Art of Writing
"Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness." - Ray Bradbury
"For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms." - Ray Bradbury
"If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." - Stephen King
"The ideas will follow me. When they’re off-guard, and ready to be born, I’ll turn around and grab them." - Ray Bradbury
"Here is the stuff of originality. For it is in the totality of experience reckoned with, filed, and forgotten, that each man is truly different from all others in the world." - Ray Bradbury
"By living well, by observing as you live, by reading well and observing as you read, you have fed Your Most Original Self. " - Ray Bradbury
"A well-fed man keeps and calmly gives forth his infinitesimal portion of eternity. It sounds big in the summer night. And it is, as it always was down the ages, when there was a man with something to tell, and ones, quiet and wise, to listen." - Ray Bradbury
"When did you last read a book of poetry or take time, of an afternoon, for an essay or two?" - Ray Bradbury