Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.
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He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
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In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.
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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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Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.
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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
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The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.
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Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.
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I don't know anything anymore
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Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Are you happy?" she Clarisse said. "Am I what?" he Montag cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.
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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.
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I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
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There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
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Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.
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There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!
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May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
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I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.