American - Writer | August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
Ray Bradbury
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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
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Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
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Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her.
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All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.
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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time.
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First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
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The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
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