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
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
Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle… — 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
Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ignore the authors… — 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
“There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells… — 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
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
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
“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’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Better to keep it in the old heads, where no one can see it or suspect it. We are all bits and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable… — 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
“You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They're Caeser's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Somewhere the saving and putting away had to begin again and someone had to do the saving and keeping, one way or… — 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
[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is… — 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
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies...A child or a book or a painting or a...garden planted. Something your hand touched… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers… — 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
These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is… — 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
“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
“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
“Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of… — 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
“He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. Perhaps he had expected… — 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
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
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