My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing them down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
Source: In Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, by James B. Simpson, 1988.
-- Ray Bradbury, (Aug 22 1920-2012), US science-fiction writer; He is best known for SF stories combining social criticism, e.g., Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles.