“To be asleep is to be dead. It is like death. So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“be a pet rock, lie with the dust, rest in the rainwater in the filled barrel by the drainspout outside your grandparents'… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“In the morning he would not have needed sleep, for all the warm odors and sights of a complete country night would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Go Panther-pawed where all the mined truths sleep. Not smash and grab, but rather find and keep; Go panther-pawed where all the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again.… — 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
