Ray Bradbury Quotes
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For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.
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These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.
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My goal is to entertain myself and others.
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Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
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Surprise is where creativity comes in.
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The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
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You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.
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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, bring lots of kids. Let them run wild. Let me spoil them, some day. JIM: I'm never going to own anything that can hurt me.
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.
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Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'
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The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.
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If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
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Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.
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I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.
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Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs.
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A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.
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I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile
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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
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I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.