Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury

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I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

Maggie Gyllenhaal
- World
- Important
- Power
Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

Oscar Wilde
- Book
- Moral
- Healthy
As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.

Zubin Mehta
- World
- Long
- Building
I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

Walter Dean Myers
- People
- Book
- Bad
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

Iain Banks
- Experience
- Book
- Ideas
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

Iris DeMent
- World
- Attention
- Songs