Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.
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Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.
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I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.
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My business is to prevent the future.
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There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
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I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.
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Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.
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Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
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This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.
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But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
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Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.
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I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!
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My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
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Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.
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Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.
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I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.
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Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.
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All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.