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 prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. — 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
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
(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… — 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
I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year. — 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
Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure 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 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
