Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream,… — 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
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face… — 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
All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the… — 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
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — 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
Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell, — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. — 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
