Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
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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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The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
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..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
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One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.
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God, here and there, makes madness a calling.
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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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Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
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Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.
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As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.
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In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.
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If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.
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Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.
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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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Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
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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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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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Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.
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And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again.
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Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.