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Ray Bradbury

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RAY BRADBURY Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury
T.K. THORNE Offensively, we left way too many men on base. And defensively, we made two mistakes today and they ...
DOUG SANKEY To try to make somebody love you is as hard as to try to walk on snow leaving no footprints.
VIKRANT PARSAI I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
MARGARET ATWOOD I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious...
JIM JARMUSCH Sunsets are loved because they vanish.

Flowers are loved because they go.

The ...
RAY BRADBURY I bought some Bradbury borders on eBay, didn't use them all, put what I had left back on eBay and go...
LISA KLOFKORN Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There'...
RICHARD LINKLATER Those footprints in the snow led me to this wildfire.
AKSHAY VASU Plot, plot and more plot. Many layers to the storytelling and a huge cast of characters that are ver...
JOHN IRVING But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Salta, y deja que te crezcan alas en el camino hacia abajo.
RAY BRADBURY I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
RAY BRADBURY The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.
VANNA BONTA One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path...
OSHO People who make great impact are well remembered due to the empty seats that remain after their deat...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When you depart from this world, you must have the confidence that you have left your footprints in ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place m...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices...
JOAN D. VINGE I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.
JAMES NORTON Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ...
DON ROFF A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
DOUGLAS SIRK Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie w...
SAM WELLER I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
ANITA DESAI That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding i...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON Another great mistake is this; another understandable error is this: living to live the footprints o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The world is run by an organization more secret than the night of your conception.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger rea...
NEIL GAIMAN Is Duran's 'No Mas' a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on...
MARKUS ZUSAK You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that ...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL Great characters- They are pivotal for a great plot. THEN a solid plot: Why then? If you do not have...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Goals are your destinations in life; objectives are the stops along the way.
GERARD DE MARIGNY Are you tired? Are you feeling that you will not be able to reach your destination? Then all you hav...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have ha...
ELIZABETH GEORGE There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set. If you have los...
WILL ROGERS Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. The...
JOHN C. CALHOUN People like Bouchard and Parizeau have left extraordinarily big footprints,
ALAIN GAGNON The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for our...
WILLIAM JAMES The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for our...
WILLIAM JAMES I guess my engineer, Ray Leto, must have some magic in him because he solved most of the problems fr...
DANICA PATRICK In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
SHELDON KOPP In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
SHELDON KOPP Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by...
ERICA JONG There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see...
TESS GERRITSEN The real value of intellectuals is not just the value of their intellect but the impact. The distinc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play t...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprints on earth
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.
RAY BRADBURY Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
RAY BRADBURY There is most certainly a good time to run, just as there is a bad time. When the nation has more to...
JONATHAN RENSHAW One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their ...
SAM YAGAN A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the char...
SUSAN MINOT But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail ...
MRS. ANN WARD RADCLIFFE So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people ...
MAURICE FLANAGAN You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem t...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp...
BOB MOAWAD My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to t...
J.K. ROWLING They're a program on their way back. We have to run the football and create more holes for (running ...
BILL KAVANAUGH Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
DAMIAN LEWIS Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE [Travel to off-season destinations. You can save on summer travel by staying at winter resorts.] Man...
AMY ZIFF The multistrand plot is clearly a much more simultaneous form of storytelling, emphasizing the group...
JOHN TRUBY It's more about the music and that they'd appeal to the whole scope of Hispanics in the U.S.. After ...
KATE RAMOS Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK You wake up on a winter morning and pull up the shade, and what lay there the evening before is no l...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Before you love, Learn to run through the snow Leaving no footprint
TURKISH PROVERB It is impossible for love to enter your heart without leaving footprints on your soul.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The woeful tales of 'Super Mario Bros.' and 'Street Fighter' have taught studios tha...
ROB MANUEL In a world full of endless destinations, I'd still choose by your side..
JENNA STODGHILL Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an inte...
SAM WELLER It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more...
CARLISLE FLOYD There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the d...
HELEN KELLER ... What more awesome.. than to build a characters with your own sins?
DEYTH BANGER Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave b...
ROBERT G. THOMPSON In recent months, Salt Lake has seen incredible growth in terms of the number of destinations served...
BOB CORTELYOU When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, g...
ORHAN PAMUK Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long frien...
GREG BEAR Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the fro...
RYNE SANDBERG No ideas are harmed in the making of my books, by the way. All I do with my best ideas is run with t...
DEBI GLIORI I think it is only natural that people have anxiety about the economy because the economy is real. I...
JOHN KEY We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian org...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON It depends on your definition of getting slammed. Are we going to get enough snow to make travel haz...
MIKE JACKSON But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the produ...
C.S. LEWIS I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pie...
SPIKE LEE Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Don't be discouraged by people who tease you out of your dreams. What you have in your heart is bigg...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You have to have your eye on the prize. We've reached this point after more than 40 years of negotia...
MICHAEL GUNTER Names are important in terms of how you construct your characters' identity, ... But the First Amend...
AYELET WALDMAN We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; ...
CHARLES MACKAY Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER The actual falling snow is almost gone now apart from in the extreme East of the country. As tempera...
BRENDAN JONES I think everybody is frustrated by the inability of the current system to insure more people in the ...
JEFFREY RUBIN Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
EUDORA WELTY Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in ou...
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RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
RAY BRADBURY Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
RAY BRADBURY A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i...
RAY BRADBURY And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I...
RAY BRADBURY I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...
RAY BRADBURY If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ...
RAY BRADBURY One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...
RAY BRADBURY Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,...
RAY BRADBURY We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v...
RAY BRADBURY I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
RAY BRADBURY That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi...
RAY BRADBURY The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
RAY BRADBURY There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go...
RAY BRADBURY Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha...
RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
RAY BRADBURY The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on...
RAY BRADBURY If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne...
RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
RAY BRADBURY Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
RAY BRADBURY Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
RAY BRADBURY You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
RAY BRADBURY You fail only if you stop writing
RAY BRADBURY Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious...
RAY BRADBURY You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl...
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