Ray Bradbury Quotes

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

Art helped give me confidence.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

Writing makes you more human.

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.