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All of my writing is God-given.

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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A book is a loaded gun.
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I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.
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Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
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That's the wonderful thing about man he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!
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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
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But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.
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The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
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And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
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I'll be darned! said Douglas. I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children! And it's kind of sad, said Tom, sitting still.There's nothing we can do to help them.
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