“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
“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
“Insane people give me hope." "What!!!!" I almost dropped my beer. "The insane have decided to stay on," Crumley said. "They love… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three… — 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
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The worst thing you do when you think is lie — you can make up reasons that are not true for the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If anything is taught here, it is simply the charting of the life of someone who started out to somewhere—and went. I… — 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
We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and… — 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
“In real life, as we know, the failure to relax a particular tension can lead to madness.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Time is so strange, and life is twice as strange. The cogs miss, the wheels turn, and lives interlace too early or… — 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 never went to college. I don’t believe in college for writers. I think too many professors are too opinionated and too… — 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
In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as… — 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
