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Fiction Quotes by Ray Bradbury

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Reading science fiction as a child opened doors to music, architecture, politics, and ethics. It invites you to wrestle with a Creative Muse and to imagine crazy, foolish ideas that can change the future. The stories try to solve real problems and push you off the edge to grow wings.

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Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

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“That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.”

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“The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything.”

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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

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I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

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Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

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I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

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Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

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The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems…

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When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would…

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To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys…

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When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in.…

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I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is…

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Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

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A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes…

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Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of…

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When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my…

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I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and…

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“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the…

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As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,…

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Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent…

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There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us…

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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for…

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“In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.…

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“Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and…

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There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male…

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I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the…

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“Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.”

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Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

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“The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to…

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I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people…

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The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of…

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Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and…

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The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge…

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In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack,…

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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.

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There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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…

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give…

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.'

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

“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…

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…

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

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…

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority