--- title: "15 Next Quotes By Ray Bradbury" description: "15 Next quotes by Ray Bradbury. Plus more from Ray Bradbury and more Next sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2a/ray-bradbury-75_book_a-book-is-a-loaded-gun-in-the-house-next_1000358.jpg" --- > [A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/a-book-is-a-loaded-gun-in-the-house-next-door-who-knows-who-might-be/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2a/ray-bradbury-75_book_a-book-is-a-loaded-gun-in-the-house-next_1000358.jpg) > [It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/it-was-only-the-other-night-everything-was-fine-and-the-next-thing-i/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/404/ray-bradbury-75_alive_it-was-only-the-other-night-everything-w_694653.jpg) > [May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/may-you-be-in-love-every-day-for-the-next-20-000-days-and-out-of-that/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/642/ray-bradbury-75_every-day_may-you-be-in-love-every-day-for-the-nex_1123673.jpg) > [Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/ideas-excite-me-and-as-soon-as-i-get-excited-the-adrenaline-gets/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16d/ray-bradbury-75_adrenaline_ideas-excite-me-and-as-soon-as-i-get-exc_2971345.jpg) > [To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/to-sum-it-all-up-if-you-want-to-write-if-you-want-to-create-you-must/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6eb/ray-bradbury-75_beautiful_to-sum-it-all-up-if-you-want-to-write-if_827691.jpg) > [I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-don-t-believe-in-government-i-hate-politics-i-m-against-it-and-i/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e57/ray-bradbury-75_believe_i-don-t-believe-in-government-i-hate-pol_1725786.jpg) > [Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/don-t-let-people-interfere-with-you-boot-em-out-turn-off-the-phone/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07c/ray-bradbury-75_boots_don-t-let-people-interfere-with-you-boot_1518165.jpg) > [This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/this-is-the-emotional-thing-you-see-you-must-galvanize-people-so-they/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ca/ray-bradbury-75_alive_this-is-the-emotional-thing-you-see-you_894331.jpg) > [You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/you-feed-yourself-make-sure-you-have-all-the-information-whether-it-s/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/157/ray-bradbury-75_aesthetic_you-feed-yourself-make-sure-you-have-all_1046.jpg) > [You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/you-must-write-every-single-day-of-your-life-you-must-lurk-in/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13b/ray-bradbury-75_book_you-must-write-every-single-day-of-your_967842.jpg) > [Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/every-time-you-take-a-step-even-when-you-don-t-want-to-when-it-hurts/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c71/ray-bradbury-75_chess_every-time-you-take-a-step-even-when-you_1835630.jpg) > [I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-wish-you-a-wrestling-match-with-your-creative-muse-that-will-last-a/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86e/ray-bradbury-75_craziness_i-wish-you-a-wrestling-match-with-your-c_16231.jpg) > [One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/one-year-halloween-came-on-october-24-three-hours-after-midnight-at/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/957/ray-bradbury-75_doors_one-year-halloween-came-on-october-24-th_253057.jpg) > [My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/my-gosh-if-you-re-going-away-we-got-a-million-things-to-talk-about/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75a/ray-bradbury-75_going-away_my-gosh-if-you-re-going-away-we-got-a-mi_1961794.jpg) > [We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/we-travel-initially-to-lose-ourselves-and-we-travel-next-to-find-3/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d91/ray-bradbury-75_adventure-and-travel_we-travel-initially-to-lose-ourselves-an_938492.jpg) ## Other authors on Next ## More by Ray Bradbury > [That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/that-s-the-great-secret-of-creativity-you-treat-ideas-like-cats-you/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/you-feed-yourself-make-sure-you-have-all-the-information-whether-it-s/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/do-you-ever-read-any-of-the-books-you-burn-he-laughed-that-s-against/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/there-s-no-reason-to-burn-books-if-you-don-t-read-them/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/we-were-put-here-as-witnesses-to-the-miracle-of-life-we-see-the-stars/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [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.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/remember-with-writing-what-you-re-looking-for-is-just-one-person-to/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/as-a-result-of-reading-science-fiction-when-i-was-eight-i-grew-up/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/you-can-t-learn-to-write-in-college-it-s-a-very-bad-place-for-writers/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/we-re-going-to-become-the-martians-when-we-land-there-when-we-explore/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-wish-you-a-wrestling-match-with-your-creative-muse-that-will-last-a/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/the-library-is-the-biggest-cracker-box-factory-in-the-world-the-more/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/we-travel-for-romance-we-travel-for-architecture-and-we-travel-to-be/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-spent-three-days-a-week-for-10-years-educating-myself-in-the-public/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/if-we-try-to-deny-the-darkness-in-our-souls-then-we-ll-become/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) > [But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/but-remember-that-the-captain-belongs-to-the-most-dangerous-enemy-to/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/next/ray-bradbury/#itemlist", "name": "15 Next Quotes By Ray Bradbury", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ray Bradbury" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/a-book-is-a-loaded-gun-in-the-house-next-door-who-knows-who-might-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2a/ray-bradbury-75_book_a-book-is-a-loaded-gun-in-the-house-next_1000358.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2a/ray-bradbury-75_book_a-book-is-a-loaded-gun-in-the-house-next_1000358.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2a/ray-bradbury-75_book_a-book-is-a-loaded-gun-in-the-house-next_1000358.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” — Ray Bradbury", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. 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