Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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Write what you love and love what you write.
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Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
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The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.
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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 have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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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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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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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
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Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.
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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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Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
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Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.
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A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.
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And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.
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I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.
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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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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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A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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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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The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
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My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.