What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Teachers say if you write a story you must never name what you’re trying to write. Just do it. When it’s over… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to… — 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
Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It is not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books...take it where you can find it,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“For there comes a time in the day’s occupations when old Money Writer falls so in love with an idea that he… — 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
“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
“You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They're Caeser's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. — 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
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