Ray Bradbury Quotes
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When you're older you want to learn from other people.
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Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.
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The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
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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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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Without the library, you have no civilization.
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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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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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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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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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There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
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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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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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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 don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
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The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
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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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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.
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You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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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.