Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my… — 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
“The third planet is incapable of supporting life,” stated the husband patiently. “Our scientists have said there’s far too much oxygen in… — 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… — 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
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of life I've had. Drunk, and in charge of a bicycle, as an Irish police report once put… — 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
“The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is… — 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
“When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Clarisse would have ignored him if it were not for the fact that as she passed, he took something long, white and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Let us remain childlike and not childish in our 20-20 vision, borrowing such telescopes, rockets, or magic carpets as may be needed… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. Sometimes it is a little hard… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I am not one thing. I am many things that America has been in my time. I had enough sense to keep… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to… — 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 do wish to run, seize this greatest time in all the history of man to be alive, stuff my senses with… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? The show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable… — 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. If you try to approach a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say.… — 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
