It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Your don't have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down… — 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. Ignore the authors… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So you go in a library, and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We do need knowledge. . . Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world,… — 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
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