Books Quotes by Ray Bradbury

“You can't ever have my books.”

— Ray Bradbury

Electronic books are junk.

— 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

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

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

“Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters.”

— 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

“We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.”

— Ray Bradbury

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

— Ray Bradbury

“He had written books of a lifetime, on the airs of vast rooms in vast buildings, and had it all fly out…

— Ray Bradbury

“All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books.”

— Ray Bradbury

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

— 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

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

— Ray Bradbury

“we should not judge our books by their covers, and that some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped.)”

— Ray Bradbury

“It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human,…

— Ray Bradbury

“The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we…

— Ray Bradbury

“I think I begin to see where everything fell apart. The books I read, jetsam to you. Junk. Why didn't we realize…

— 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'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

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 does that put you?" Montag bit his lip. "I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for…

— Ray Bradbury

I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every…

— Ray Bradbury

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like…

— Ray Bradbury

“I use a library the same way I’ve been describing the creative process as a writer — I don’t go in with…

— Ray Bradbury

“There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house, there must be…

— Ray Bradbury

“And now, these books. This. He touched PHYSIOGNOMONIE. The secrets of the individual's character as found on his face. Were Jim and…

— Ray Bradbury

“Montag tried to see the men's faces, the old faces he remembered from the firelight, lined and tired. He was looking for…

— Ray Bradbury

“No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

“Well, Montag, take my word for it, I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about,…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

“He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury