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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

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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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.
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People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.
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Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.
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Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.
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Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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And the lesson was this sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.
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I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
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I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.
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The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’
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Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
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Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.
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I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
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