There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I try to keep up with what’s being done in every field, and most children’s books are ten times more enjoyable than… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ignore the authors… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We do need knowledge. . . Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn’t it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So you go in a library, and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading. — 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… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Your don't have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face. A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings… — 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
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. — 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
I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my… — 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
