“No, child. I'm old enough and cold enough; the hottest day won't thaw me” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all. — 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
We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the… — 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
“I sat and three hours later realized I had been seized by an idea that started short but grew to wild size… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“There it is." And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptance as all the bits and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time. I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My parents read the comics to me, and I fell in love with comic strips. I've collected them all of my life.… — 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
“Those children are right," he would have said. "They stole nothing from you, my dear. These things don't belong to you here,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“How're your children, Mrs. Phelps?' he asked. 'You know I haven't any! No one in his right mind, the good Lord knows,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a… — 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
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
