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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

~Ray Bradbury

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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

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There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

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I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

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

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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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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 22nd, 1920

Died: June 5th, 2012

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