People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
'Fahrenheit 451' postulates a lot of things I didn't want to have happen. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people? — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by… — 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… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks.… — 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
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the… — 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… — 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
Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You… — 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
These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own… — 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… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting… — 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
