Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
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How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?
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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
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We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.
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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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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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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.
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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
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Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.
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Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.
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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
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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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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
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What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
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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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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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A day without writing was a little death.
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People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
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In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
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For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.