Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.
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You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk away from it and let it ferment. You ignore it and pretend you don't care. Next thing you know, the answer comes.
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Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)
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Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
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They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.
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Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.
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Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
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Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.
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I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
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In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.
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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.
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I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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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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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
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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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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
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I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?
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If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.
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At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!