"I don’t write things to benefit the..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.
More by Ray Bradbury
“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.”
“I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.”
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
More on Writing
“Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.”
“Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.”
“My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care.”
More on Purpose
“You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.”
“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
“Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.”