That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“He walked toward the corner, thinking little at all about nothing in particular.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Chock them so ... full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to… — 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
We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies.… — 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
I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked… — 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
I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — 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
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power. — 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
