"My favorite writers have been those who've..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.
More by Ray Bradbury
“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
“To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.”
“I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”
More on Writing
“There is no rule on how to write.”
“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”
“Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”
More on Style
“Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.”
“Being fresh is more important than having money.”
“An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.”