Book Quotes by Ray Bradbury

There is more than one way to burn a book.

— Ray Bradbury

“You can't ever have my books.”

— Ray Bradbury

I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

— Ray Bradbury

A book is a loaded gun.

— Ray Bradbury

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

— Ray Bradbury

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

— 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

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

— Ray Bradbury

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

— Ray Bradbury

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

— Ray Bradbury

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

— Ray Bradbury

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient…

— Ray Bradbury

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

— Ray Bradbury

“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

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

— Ray Bradbury

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to…

— Ray Bradbury

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things…

— 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

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

I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every…

— Ray Bradbury

Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest.…

— Ray Bradbury

“Where do we go from here? Would books help us?" "Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one,…

— Ray Bradbury

“Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then…

— Ray Bradbury

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

Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable…

— Ray Bradbury

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion…

— Ray Bradbury

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

“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean?…

— Ray Bradbury

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the…

— Ray Bradbury

In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my…

— Ray Bradbury

Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for…

— Ray Bradbury

People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I…

— Ray Bradbury

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes…

— Ray Bradbury

Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old…

— Ray Bradbury

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

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

— Ray Bradbury

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

— Ray Bradbury

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

— Ray Bradbury

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I…

— Ray Bradbury