It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. By Ray Bradbury Quick View Author All Quotes, Ray Bradbury Tag: #burning, #censorship, #fire
And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you’ve hid inside (…) By Ray Bradbury Quick View Author All Quotes, Ray Bradbury Tag: #metaphor, #pride, #smile
Write. Don’t think. Relax. By Ray Bradbury Quick View Author All Quotes, Ray Bradbury Tag: #writing-and-art
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right. By Ray Bradbury Quick View Author All Quotes, Ray Bradbury Tag: #writing-life, #writing-philosophy
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. By Ray Bradbury Quick View Author All Quotes, Ray Bradbury Tag: #writing, #writing-craft, #writing-life
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot. By Ray Bradbury Quick View Author All Quotes, Ray Bradbury Tag: #writing, #writing-craft
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. By Ray Bradbury Quick View Author All Quotes, Ray Bradbury Tag: #writing
Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven’t friends. Go find some. By Ray Bradbury Quick View Author All Quotes, Ray Bradbury Tag: #friendship, #writing
What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them? By Ray Bradbury Quick View Author All Quotes, Ray Bradbury