Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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My job is to help you fall in love.
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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
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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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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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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness
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Work. Don't Think. Relax.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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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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This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
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He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.
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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.
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We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
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If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.
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You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.
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...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
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Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
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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.