Ray Bradbury

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#friends #friendship #influence #friendship

Write. Don't think. Relax. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#art

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#life #love #time #inspirational

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#truth #art

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#art

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#writing-philosophy #art

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#writing-craft #writing-life #art

The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#mass-media #media #tv #media

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#imagination #dreams

I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#inspirational #life #humor