You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — 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
“All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years. — 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
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
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
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What traitors books can be! you think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away,… — 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
Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My parents read the comics to me, and I fell in love with comic strips. I've collected them all of my life.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You should've thought of that before becoming a fireman." "Thought!" he said. "Was I given a choice? I was raised to think… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. — 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
Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.' — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them.… — 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
