--- title: "7 Dust Quotes By Ray Bradbury" description: "7 Dust quotes by Ray Bradbury. Plus more from Ray Bradbury and more Dust sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8b/ray-bradbury-75_book_for-if-we-re-destroyed-the-knowledge-is_74174.jpg" --- > [For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/for-if-we-re-destroyed-the-knowledge-is-dead-we-re-nothing-more-than/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8b/ray-bradbury-75_book_for-if-we-re-destroyed-the-knowledge-is_74174.jpg) > [And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/and-there-row-upon-row-with-the-soft-gleam-of-flowers-opened-at/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/121/ray-bradbury-75_bird_and-there-row-upon-row-with-the-soft-gle_227573.jpg) > [For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/for-these-beings-fall-is-ever-the-normal-season-the-only-weather/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4e/ray-bradbury-75_abyss_for-these-beings-fall-is-ever-the-normal_897017.jpg) > [The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/the-huge-round-lunar-clock-was-a-gristmill-shake-down-all-the-grains/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f58/ray-bradbury-75_bigs_the-huge-round-lunar-clock-was-a-gristmi_1021698.jpg) > [“I'm so scared i could sprinkle dust.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-m-so-scared-i-could-sprinkle-dust/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/385/ray-bradbury-75_quote_i-m-so-scared-i-could-sprinkle-dust-1633_1633369.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/it-s-important-to-read-a-book-but-also-to-hold-the-book-to-smell-the/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73c/ray-bradbury-75_book_it-s-important-to-read-a-book-but-also-t_2030638.jpg) > [“We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/we-re-nothing-more-than-dust-jackets-for-books-of-no-significance/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82e/ray-bradbury-75_books_we-re-nothing-more-than-dust-jackets-for_2062245.jpg) ## Other authors on Dust ## More by Ray Bradbury > [That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/that-s-the-great-secret-of-creativity-you-treat-ideas-like-cats-you/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/you-feed-yourself-make-sure-you-have-all-the-information-whether-it-s/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/do-you-ever-read-any-of-the-books-you-burn-he-laughed-that-s-against/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/there-s-no-reason-to-burn-books-if-you-don-t-read-them/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/we-were-put-here-as-witnesses-to-the-miracle-of-life-we-see-the-stars/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [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.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/remember-with-writing-what-you-re-looking-for-is-just-one-person-to/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/as-a-result-of-reading-science-fiction-when-i-was-eight-i-grew-up/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/you-can-t-learn-to-write-in-college-it-s-a-very-bad-place-for-writers/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/we-re-going-to-become-the-martians-when-we-land-there-when-we-explore/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-wish-you-a-wrestling-match-with-your-creative-muse-that-will-last-a/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/the-library-is-the-biggest-cracker-box-factory-in-the-world-the-more/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/we-travel-for-romance-we-travel-for-architecture-and-we-travel-to-be/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-spent-three-days-a-week-for-10-years-educating-myself-in-the-public/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/if-we-try-to-deny-the-darkness-in-our-souls-then-we-ll-become/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/but-remember-that-the-captain-belongs-to-the-most-dangerous-enemy-to/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dust/ray-bradbury/#itemlist", "name": "7 Dust Quotes By Ray Bradbury", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ray Bradbury" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/for-if-we-re-destroyed-the-knowledge-is-dead-we-re-nothing-more-than/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8b/ray-bradbury-75_book_for-if-we-re-destroyed-the-knowledge-is_74174.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8b/ray-bradbury-75_book_for-if-we-re-destroyed-the-knowledge-is_74174.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8b/ray-bradbury-75_book_for-if-we-re-destroyed-the-knowledge-is_74174.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many…” — Ray Bradbury", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. 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