Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
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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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Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.
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I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
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The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.
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I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
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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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A day without writing was a little death.
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It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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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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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness
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No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.
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Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
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I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.
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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.
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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 don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.