Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. — 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
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“She didn’t watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen… — 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's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I memorized all of “John Carter” and “Tarzan,” and sat on my grandparents’ front lawn repeating the stories to anyone who would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build… — 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
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
“When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the… — 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
“Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Après tout, on vit à l'époque des Kleenex. On fait avec les gens comme avec les mouchoirs, on froisse après usage, on… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up… — 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
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in.… — 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
I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes… — 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
