Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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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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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
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Don't talk about it; write.
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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.
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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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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.
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Evil has only the power we give it.
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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.
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Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
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Beware the autumn people
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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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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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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It was a pleasure to burn.
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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!
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
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Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.