Ray Bradbury Quotes

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

I'm constantly writing.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can't revise it if you haven't written it.

I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

I write constantly about everything.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way is to stop work in the middle of a sentence. Then you know exactly how to continue the day after.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.