Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love… — 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
Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people… — 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
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
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 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
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
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'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
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
Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never… — 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
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
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
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
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
Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their… — 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'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
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
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
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
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
When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the… — 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
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
It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a… — 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
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
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
People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say.… — 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
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
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
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
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
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
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
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… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
