Ray Bradbury Quotes
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
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If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.
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Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.
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I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
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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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It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.
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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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If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.
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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
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When you're older you want to learn from other people.
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What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
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You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they're your friends for a lifetime. That's what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world, because nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself.
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I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.
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I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
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The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
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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.
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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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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.
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In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
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I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.