People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“At the exact moment when truth erupts, the subconscious changes from wastebasket file to angel writing in a book of gold.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You who walk the earth know only the moment, which is whisked away with your next exhalation.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Maybe I don’t have enough to do. Maybe I have time to think too much. Why don’t we shut the whole house… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The Martians were there—in the canal—reflected in the water… The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“He almost turned back to make the walk again, to give her time to appear. He was certain if he tried the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. Youve got to relax, let… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. On occasion? Sure.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I feel alive for the first time in years. I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Seemed to me a phone was an impersonal instrument. If it felt like it, it let your personality go through its wires.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Tom," she said, faintly, far away, "in the Southern Seas there's a day in each man's life when he knows it's time… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“He had felt that a moment before his making the turn, someone had been there. The air seemed charged with a special… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Ask me, then, if I believe in the spirit of the things as they were used, and I'll say yes. They're all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Montag said nothing but stood looking at the women's faces as he had once looked at the faces of saints in a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You’ll find out it’s little savors and little things that count more than big ones. A walk on a spring morning is… — 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
