All of the good, weird stories Iโve written are based on things Iโve dredged out of my subconscious. Thatโs the real stuff. Everything else is fake.
Ray BradburyThe most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
Ray BradburyStuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray BradburyTime is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?
Ray Bradbury