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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Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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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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And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
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The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.
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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 must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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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.
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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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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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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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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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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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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
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My job is to help you fall in love.
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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.