Ray Bradbury Quotes
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A life's work should be based on love.
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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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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
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You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.
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Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.
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The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.
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You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
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Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.
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The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
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Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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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Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.
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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
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There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.
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Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.
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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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I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!