This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?
- Ray Bradbury
More Quotes By Ray Bradbury
There is more than one way to burn a book.
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running... Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling... Heaven is a house with porch lights.
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning... The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that... Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a... Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened... The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at... You’re afraid of making mistakes. Don’t be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I... The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly,... Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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