The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Second, writing is survival. Any art, any good work, of course, is that.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane… — 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
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Live in the library, for Christ’s sake! Don’t live on your goddamn computers and the internet and all that crap. Go to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“This is incredible. This is quite amazing because who you're honoring tonight is not only myself but the ghost of a lot… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is… — 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
“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
I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to… — 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
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. — 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
