My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 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
I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest.… — 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
I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is… — 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
“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 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
But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the… — 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
“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
“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
(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Image
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 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
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
