Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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My goal is to entertain myself and others.
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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
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And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
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I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.
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I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.
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You're insane!" "I won't argue that point.
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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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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Without the library, you have no civilization.
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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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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
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Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.
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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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Good to evil seems evil
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The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.
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I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?
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From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.