The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“He had written books of a lifetime, on the airs of vast rooms in vast buildings, and had it all fly out… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff… — 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
“There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They're Caeser's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It is not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books...take it where you can find it,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Where are my two precious human books so I may turn their pages, aye?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch. — 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
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
