I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. — 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 still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo . Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin . Burn it.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What traitors books can be! you think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“At the exact moment when truth erupts, the subconscious changes from wastebasket file to angel writing in a book of gold.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I think I begin to see where everything fell apart. The books I read, jetsam to you. Junk. Why didn't we realize… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long… — 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
“And now, these books. This. He touched PHYSIOGNOMONIE. The secrets of the individual's character as found on his face. Were Jim and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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
“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be… — 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
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
