“At the exact moment when truth erupts, the subconscious changes from wastebasket file to angel writing in a book of gold.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The things you're looking for...are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see ninety-nine percent of them is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Where do we go from here? Would books help us?" "Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies...A child or a book or a painting or a...garden planted. Something your hand touched… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“After all, when we had all the books we needed, we still insisted on finding the highest cliff to jump off. But… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And when the war's over, someday, some year, the books can be written again, the people will be called in, one by… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous." "Men like that always are.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I try to keep up with what’s being done in every field, and most children’s books are ten times more enjoyable than… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So you go in a library, and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you… — 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
