Ray Bradbury cytaty
Ray Bradbury
Data urodzenia: 22. Sierpień 1920
Data zgonu: 5. Czerwiec 2012
Raymond Douglas Bradbury – amerykański pisarz, należący do czołówki światowych twórców fantastyki. Używał pseudonimów: Edward Banks, William Elliot, D. R. Banat, Leonard Douglas, Leonard Spaulding. Publikował pod nimi głównie w pismach głównego nurtu. Wikipedia
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Cytaty Ray Bradbury
— Ray Bradbury, książka 451 stopni Fahrenheita
Fahrenheit 451
„Czy wszyscy umierający ludzie czują się tak, jakby nigdy nie żyli?“
Ilustrowany człowiek i inne opowiadania (2003)
„Nie należy sądzić książki po obwolucie.“
— Ray Bradbury, książka 451 stopni Fahrenheita
451 stopni Fahrenheita
Los Angeles, 11 lipca 1974.
Henry Kuttner – niedoceniony mistrz
Ilustrowany człowiek i inne opowiadania (2003)
„451° Fahrenheita – to temperatura, w której papier zaczyna się tlić i płonie…“
— Ray Bradbury, książka 451 stopni Fahrenheita
motto książki.
451 stopni Fahrenheita
Ilustrowany człowiek i inne opowiadania (2003)
Henry Kuttner – niedoceniony mistrz
„Każde wymarłe miasto ma swoje duchy. To znaczy wspomnienia.“
Źródło: Ciemnoskórzy byli i złotoocy
„Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.“
— Ray Bradbury, książka 451 stopni Fahrenheita
Źródło: Fahrenheit 451
— Ray Bradbury, książka 451 stopni Fahrenheita
Źródło: Fahrenheit 451
— Ray Bradbury, książka Dandelion Wine
Źródło: Dandelion Wine (1957), pp. 235-236
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Kontekst: Three things are in your head: First, everything you have experienced from the day of your birth until right now. Every single second, every single hour, every single day. Then, how you reacted to those events in the minute of their happening, whether they were disastrous or joyful. Those are two things you have in your mind to give you material. Then, separate from the living experiences are all the art experiences you’ve had, the things you’ve learned from other writers, artists, poets, film directors, and composers. So all of this is in your mind as a fabulous mulch and you have to bring it out. How do you do that? I did it by making lists of nouns and then asking, What does each noun mean? You can go and make up your own list right now and it would be different than mine. The night. The crickets. The train whistle. The basement. The attic. The tennis shoes. The fireworks. All these things are very personal. Then, when you get the list down, you begin to word-associate around it. You ask, Why did I put this word down? What does it mean to me? Why did I put this noun down and not some other word? Do this and you’re on your way to being a good writer. You can’t write for other people. You can’t write for the left or the right, this religion or that religion, or this belief or that belief. You have to write the way you see things.
„Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.“
— Ray Bradbury, książka 451 stopni Fahrenheita
Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Wariant: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Źródło: Fahrenheit 451
— Ray Bradbury, książka The Golden Apples of the Sun
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl (1948)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
„You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.“
— Ray Bradbury, książka Ray Bradbury
As quoted in "Bradbury Still Believes in Heat of ‘Fahrenheit 451’" http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930312&slug=1689996, interview by Misha Berson, in ', credited to "Ray Bradbury, quoted by Misha Berson in Seattle Times", in "Quotable Quotes", The Reader's Digest, Vol. 144, No. 861, January 1994, p. 25 http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=ZqqUAAAAIAAJ&q=%22people+to+stop+reading%22#search_anchor), or an indirect reference to the re-quoting in Reader's Digest (such as: The Times Book of Quotations (Philip Howard, ed.), 2000, Times Books and HarperCollins, p. 93
Variant: We're not teaching kids to read and write and think. … There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
As quoted in "At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future He Foresaw" http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_peoria.html, interview by Roger Moore, in The Peoria Journal Star (August 2000)
Kontekst: The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. … You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
„You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.“
— Ray Bradbury, książka Zen in the Art of Writing
Źródło: Zen in the Art of Writing