Writer Quotes by Ray Bradbury

“e-books "smell like burned fuel”

— Ray Bradbury

“You can't ever have my books.”

— Ray Bradbury

Love is easy, and I love writing.

— Ray Bradbury

Write. Don't think. Relax.

— Ray Bradbury

Electronic books are junk.

— Ray Bradbury

You fail only if you stop writing.

— Ray Bradbury

Good writers touch life often.

— Ray Bradbury

“I love to write. It's all I do.”

— Ray Bradbury

Write what you love and love what you write.

— Ray Bradbury

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

— Ray Bradbury

... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

— Ray Bradbury

“The good writers touch life. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.”

— Ray Bradbury

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

— Ray Bradbury

Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

— Ray Bradbury

“I had no way to stop . I did not write Fahrenheit 451, it wrote me.”

— Ray Bradbury

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

— Ray Bradbury

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

— Ray Bradbury

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

— Ray Bradbury

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of…

— Ray Bradbury

“He had written books of a lifetime, on the airs of vast rooms in vast buildings, and had it all fly out…

— Ray Bradbury

All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff.…

— Ray Bradbury

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake,…

— Ray Bradbury

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

— Ray Bradbury

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

— Ray Bradbury

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor,…

— Ray Bradbury

“And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written…

— Ray Bradbury

“Be pragmatic, then. If you’re not happy with the way your writing has gone, you might give my method a try. If…

— Ray Bradbury

“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned…

— Ray Bradbury

“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular…

— Ray Bradbury

“It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human,…

— Ray Bradbury

“Lived in Chicago, survived in New York, brooded in Detroit, floundered in lots of places, arrived here late, after living in libraries…

— Ray Bradbury

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is…

— Ray Bradbury

“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite…

— Ray Bradbury

“I use a library the same way I’ve been describing the creative process as a writer — I don’t go in with…

— Ray Bradbury

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in…

— Ray Bradbury

“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

“I’ve tried to teach my writing friends that there are two arts: number one, getting a thing done; and then, the second…

— Ray Bradbury

I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to…

— Ray Bradbury

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are…

— Ray Bradbury

But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to…

— Ray Bradbury