Science fiction Quotes by Ray Bradbury

“That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.”

— Ray Bradbury

“The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything.”

— Ray Bradbury

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

— Ray Bradbury

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

— Ray Bradbury

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

— Ray Bradbury

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

— Ray Bradbury

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

— Ray Bradbury

“Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.”

— Ray Bradbury

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen…

— Ray Bradbury

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

— Ray Bradbury

“She didn’t watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers…

— Ray Bradbury

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems…

— Ray Bradbury

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would…

— Ray Bradbury

To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys…

— Ray Bradbury

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in.…

— Ray Bradbury

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is…

— Ray Bradbury

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

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my…

— Ray Bradbury

“Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build…

— Ray Bradbury

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and…

— Ray Bradbury

“I memorized all of “John Carter” and “Tarzan,” and sat on my grandparents’ front lawn repeating the stories to anyone who would…

— Ray Bradbury

“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the…

— Ray Bradbury

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,…

— Ray Bradbury

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent…

— Ray Bradbury

“Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and…

— Ray Bradbury

There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male…

— Ray Bradbury

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out…

— Ray Bradbury

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the…

— Ray Bradbury

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

— Ray Bradbury

“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)”

— Ray Bradbury

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

— Ray Bradbury

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes…

— Ray Bradbury

“The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to…

— Ray Bradbury

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up…

— Ray Bradbury

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

“Après tout, on vit à l'époque des Kleenex. On fait avec les gens comme avec les mouchoirs, on froisse après usage, on…

— Ray Bradbury

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of…

— Ray Bradbury

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and…

— Ray Bradbury

In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack,…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury