Ray Bradbury Quotes

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.

I think that we can learn so much if we pay attention to our dreams, whether when we are asleep or in waking dreams. There are connections that are absolutely incredible.

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

I always think it's a mistake when you actually have to set books aside and actually sit down and research something. I always think they've got to come from within.

This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds.

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?