“The Animal does not question lif. It lives. It's very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“In real life, as we know, the failure to relax a particular tension can lead to madness.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Nearby, an old man was similarly engaged in finding the pattern of his life in the depths of his glass.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Was there, then, no strength in growing up? No solace in being an adult? No sanctuary in life? No fleshly citadel strong… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If it seems I've come the long way around, perhaps I have. But I wanted to show what we all have in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I never liked lobster in my life, and mainly because I’d never tried it. On my eightieth birthday I tried it. I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And when the war's over, someday, some year, the books can be written again, the people will be called in, one by… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“They walked over to the body, thinking that perhaps they could still save the man’s life. They couldn’t believe that there wasn’t… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“He felt the tremble . . . Why? But she was bigger, stronger, more intelligent than himself, wasn’t she? Did she, too,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Dad, will they ever come back?" "No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, other people like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Why love the boy in a March field with his kite braving the sky? Because our fingers burn with the hot string… — 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
“What could he say that might make sense to them? Could he say love was, above all, common cause, shared experience? That… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“My waiter friend, Laurent, working at the Brasserie Champs du Mars near the Eiffel Tower, one night while serving me Une Grande… — 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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 than you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
