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Ray Bradbury, famous American Writer, was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois.

He is well known as an literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. His The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and reading by all of us. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most popular American writers of speculative fiction during the twentieth century.

American culture as have those of no other science-fiction writer- through more than five hundred stories, poems, essays, plays, films, television plays, radio, music, and even comic books. Bradbury is still something of an anomaly in the genre.

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”

“If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”

“Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.”

“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

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