Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
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I take this continent with me into the grave.
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Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.
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He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")
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What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?
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Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
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You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.
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I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
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Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
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I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.
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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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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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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
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Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.
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Those women like to see their tongues dance.
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Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
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Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
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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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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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Without the library, you have no civilization.
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We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.
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We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.