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
I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

Xavier Becerra
- World
- Important
- Country
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