Book Quotes by Ray Bradbury

“You can't ever have my books.”

— Ray Bradbury

There is more than one way to burn a book.

— Ray Bradbury

A book is a loaded gun.

— Ray Bradbury

I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

— Ray Bradbury

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

— Ray Bradbury

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

— Ray Bradbury

Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

— Ray Bradbury

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

— Ray Bradbury

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

— Ray Bradbury

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

— Ray Bradbury

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

— Ray Bradbury

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

— Ray Bradbury

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I…

— Ray Bradbury

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane…

— Ray Bradbury

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,…

— Ray Bradbury

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

— Ray Bradbury

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the…

— Ray Bradbury

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books…

— Ray Bradbury

“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die,…

— Ray Bradbury

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things…

— Ray Bradbury

I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so…

— Ray Bradbury

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff…

— Ray Bradbury

“And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.…

— Ray Bradbury

“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular…

— Ray Bradbury

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house…

— Ray Bradbury

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With…

— Ray Bradbury

Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest.…

— Ray Bradbury

“Where do we go from here? Would books help us?" "Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one,…

— Ray Bradbury

I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,…

— Ray Bradbury

But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to…

— Ray Bradbury

Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for…

— Ray Bradbury

People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I…

— Ray Bradbury

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes…

— Ray Bradbury

Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old…

— Ray Bradbury

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the…

— Ray Bradbury

I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed…

— Ray Bradbury

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

— Ray Bradbury

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

— Ray Bradbury

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

— Ray Bradbury

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake,…

— Ray Bradbury