Ray Bradbury Quotes
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You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
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I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
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I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
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Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.
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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Good to evil seems evil
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Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.
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Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
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Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?
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What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?
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Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.
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The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.
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We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
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In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
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We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
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What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.
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I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.
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Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.
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They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.
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When I finished writing it, I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.
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The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.
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We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.