For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from?… — 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
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading 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
The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. — 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
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
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 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
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
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many… — 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
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,'… — 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
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We… — 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
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
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
