I'll tell you, said Beatty, smiling at his cards. That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all. β¨ Ray Bradbury (2012). Fahrenheit 451: A Novel, p.102, Simon and Schuster
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- I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me. β¨ Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203. Interview with Sam Weller, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2010.
- 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.
- 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. β¨ Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). Conversati β¦ βΆ
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