It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. — 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
“We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.” — 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 should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films. — 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
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
“It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn. — 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
“He had written books of a lifetime, on the airs of vast rooms in vast buildings, and had it all fly out… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
“The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we… — 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
“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
“Where does that put you?" Montag bit his lip. "I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for… — 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
“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
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
“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
“Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I use a library the same way I’ve been describing the creative process as a writer — I don’t go in with… — 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
“Montag tried to see the men's faces, the old faces he remembered from the firelight, lined and tired. He was looking for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — 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
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
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the… — 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
