One More for the Road Quotes

“Teachers say if you write a story you must never name what you’re trying to write. Just do it. When it’s over you’ll know what you’ve done.”
― Ray Bradbury, One More for the Road: A Celebrated Author's Magical and Bittersweet Short Fiction

“Summer was over. Of course you can't tell in Los Angeles.”
― Ray Bradbury, One More for the Road: A Celebrated Author's Magical and Bittersweet Short Fiction

“Thinking a man good, we risk his duplicity. Thinking a man bad, we deny sanctuary.”
― Ray Bradbury, One More for the Road: A Celebrated Author's Magical and Bittersweet Short Fiction

“It's bad to get up early, stand at your typewriter and work, then find it's nothing and take a bottle to bed.”
― Ray Bradbury, One More for the Road: A Celebrated Author's Magical and Bittersweet Short Fiction

“Lord, he thought, I can hardly wait. He laughed out loud. When was the last time you said that? When you were a kid, could hardly wait, had a list of hard-to-wait-for things. Christmas, my God, was always a billion miles off. Easter? Half a million. Halloween? Dear sweet Halloween, pumpkins, running, yelling, rapping windows, ringing doorbells, and the mask, cardboard smelling hot with breath over your face. All Hallows! The best. But a lifetime away. And July Fourth with great expectations, trying to be first out of bed, first half-dressed, first jumping out on the lawn, first to light six-inchers, first to blow up the town! Hey, listen! First! July Fourth. Can hardly wait. Hardly wait!”
― Ray Bradbury, One More for the Road

“They peered at him with their shining honey warm molasses-brown eyes. Their smiles, the white smiles pinned to their faces, were wide as all of summer.”
― Ray Bradbury, One More for the Road: A Celebrated Author's Magical and Bittersweet Short Fiction