--- title: "7 Perfume Quotes By Ray Bradbury" description: "7 Perfume quotes by Ray Bradbury. Plus more from Ray Bradbury and more Perfume sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e37/ray-bradbury-75_kerosene_kerosene-he-said-because-the-silence-had_834447.jpg" --- > [Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/kerosene-he-said-because-the-silence-had-lengthened-is-nothing-but/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e37/ray-bradbury-75_kerosene_kerosene-he-said-because-the-silence-had_834447.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) > [(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/in-response-to-the-question-what-do-you-think-of-e-books-and-amazon-s/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11b/ray-bradbury-75_amazon_in-response-to-the-question-what-do-you_1645004.jpg) > [Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/sniff-books-like-perfumes-and-wear-books-like-hats-upon-your-crazy/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c8/ray-bradbury-75_book_sniff-books-like-perfumes-and-wear-books_1675538.jpg) > [It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/it-s-important-to-read-a-book-but-also-to-hold-the-book-to-smell-the/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73c/ray-bradbury-75_book_it-s-important-to-read-a-book-but-also-t_2030638.jpg) > [“Kerosene...is nothing but perfume to me,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/kerosene-is-nothing-but-perfume-to-me/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36f/ray-bradbury-75_kerosene_kerosene-is-nothing-but-perfume-to-me-30_3096078.jpg) > [“The odors of perfume were fanned out on the summer air by the whirling vents of the grottoes where the women hid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/the-odors-of-perfume-were-fanned-out-on-the-summer-air-by-the/) [Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/ray-bradbury-75_beauty-parlors_the-odors-of-perfume-were-fanned-out-on_3151649.jpg) ## Other authors on Perfume ## 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/perfume/ray-bradbury/#itemlist", "name": "7 Perfume Quotes By Ray Bradbury", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Kerosene,\" he said, because the silence had lengthened, \"is nothing but perfume to me.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ray Bradbury" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/kerosene-he-said-because-the-silence-had-lengthened-is-nothing-but/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e37/ray-bradbury-75_kerosene_kerosene-he-said-because-the-silence-had_834447.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e37/ray-bradbury-75_kerosene_kerosene-he-said-because-the-silence-had_834447.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e37/ray-bradbury-75_kerosene_kerosene-he-said-because-the-silence-had_834447.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Kerosene,\" he said, because the silence had lengthened, \"is nothing but perfume to me.” — Ray Bradbury", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You must write every single day of your life... 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