Ray Bradbury Quotes

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

You become a great writer by writing.

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

All experience helps when you write.

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself.

Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.