Ray Bradbury Wings Quotations

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

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.