You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo . Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin . Burn it.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Let me alone," said Mildred "Let you alone!" He almost cried out with laughter. "Letting you alone is easy, but how can… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The things you are looking for, Montag, are in the world but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Where are my two precious human books so I may turn their pages, aye?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Your don't have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
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.' — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
