Ray Bradbury Quotes

I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

I've had down periods in the past few years where I haven't been writing or working on music, and during that time something always felt like it was missing, but when I bring it back into the equation, everything in my life makes sense again. As corny as that sounds.

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.

To write has to be related to a drive inside.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.

I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification for writing any particular story was that I cared about it.

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in my shoe, a voice that I just can't get rid of, and I've got to see it through.

Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.