Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.
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If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
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There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.
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Work. Don't Think. Relax.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.
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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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...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
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The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.
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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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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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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.