The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.

But no man's a hero to himself.

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.