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.

Quote by Ray Bradbury

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library,...

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library,...

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love...

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love...

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every...

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every...

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy....

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy....

You fail only if you stop writing.

You fail only if you stop writing.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want...

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want...

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

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

Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

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

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

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on.

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want...

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want...

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip...

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip...

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that...

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that...

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

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

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

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up...

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up...

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love...

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love...

I'm a human being, I cry, I'm actually extremely sensitive, my feelings get hurt, I...

I'm a human being, I cry, I'm actually extremely sensitive, my feelings get hurt, I...

The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your...

The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your...

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks...

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks...

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids...

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...