They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The Martians were there—in the canal—reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the… — 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
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