Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. — 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
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
“No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway,… — 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
“More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun and you don't have to think, eh? Organize and organize and superorganize super-super sports. More… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law, Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli or Christ, it's here. And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — 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
