I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get… — 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… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever,… — 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
