"In order for a thing to be..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury

“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. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.”

“What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.”

“I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.”

“O rose, who dares to name thee?No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.”

“When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.”

“The rose is a rose, And was always a rose.But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.”

“The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.”

“A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.”

“To the mean all becomes mean.”