Ray Bradbury Quotes
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But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes
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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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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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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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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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At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!
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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
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Evil has only the power we give it.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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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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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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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.
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When you're older you want to learn from other people.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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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.