People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. — 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 don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people. — 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
Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you? — 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
I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people? — 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
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world… — 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 discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular… — 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
I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind… — 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
You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to… — 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
He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are… — 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
I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters. — 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
Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc… — 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
