"My stories run up and bite me..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
More by Ray Bradbury
“But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.”
“A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.”
“The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.”
More on Writing
“Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.”
“The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.”
“It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter.”