“Where are my two precious human books so I may turn their pages, aye?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The things you're looking for...are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see ninety-nine percent of them is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I am a passionate, not an intellectual writer, which means my characters must plunge ahead of me to live the story” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“After all, when we had all the books we needed, we still insisted on finding the highest cliff to jump off. But… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And… — 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
The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Light the third page from the second and so on, chain-smoking, chapter by chapter, all the silly things the words mean, all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I try to keep up with what’s being done in every field, and most children’s books are ten times more enjoyable than… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face. A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — 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
