Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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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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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.
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We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
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There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.
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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 real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
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If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.
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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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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
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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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Beware the autumn people
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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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So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.
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The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
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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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You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
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Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.