Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

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• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Book
  • Support

• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Speak

• I'm pretty much an open book.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Open

• Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Book
  • Fact
  • Publish

• I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Book
  • Stories
  • See

• I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Name
  • Doors

• Did you read Holly Near's book? Let me save you the trouble. This is the most exciting sentence in the book: ...'I feel like a lesbian when I'm making love to a woman.' Gooooooooood, Holly! Well, the major difference between me and Holly Near is that I feel like a lesbian when I am BREATHING!

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Book
  • Lesbian

• I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Work
  • Book

• I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Men
  • Book

• Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian.

  

  Christo
  • Art
  • Book

• We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.

  

  Christian Scott
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Parents

• I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • God
  • Book
  • Trust

• Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

  

  Will Smith
  • Up
  • Book
  • Space

• My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • Book
  • Dream

• Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • People
  • Book

• You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Purpose

• On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?

  

  Brad Meltzer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I think fans are just obsessed with the 'Twilight' saga and then within it they might have preferences between if they're Team Jacob, Team Edward or Team Jasper. It just comes down to them loving the whole thing, and if they can get any of the boys from the book they are fine with that.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Book
  • Team
  • Twilight

• It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• Is a position that, if held on to, will certainly wreck the peace process.

  

  Albert Reynolds
  • Peace
  • Position
  • Wreck

• The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • World
  • Fool

• A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
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