Years Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

— Ray Bradbury

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

— Ray Bradbury

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

— Ray Bradbury

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

— Ray Bradbury

I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

— Ray Bradbury

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

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something…

— Ray Bradbury

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human…

— Ray Bradbury

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it…

— Ray Bradbury

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born…

— Ray Bradbury

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to…

— Ray Bradbury

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to…

— Ray Bradbury

It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I…

— Ray Bradbury

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for…

— Ray Bradbury

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from…

— Ray Bradbury

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should…

— Ray Bradbury

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems…

— Ray Bradbury

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

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my…

— Ray Bradbury

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

Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be…

— Ray Bradbury

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the…

— Ray Bradbury

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are…

— Ray Bradbury

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

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

Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old…

— Ray Bradbury

But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to…

— Ray Bradbury

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in…

— Ray Bradbury

Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find…

— Ray Bradbury

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

— Ray Bradbury

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

— Ray Bradbury

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the…

— Ray Bradbury

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years…

— Ray Bradbury

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

— Ray Bradbury

Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to…

— Ray Bradbury

The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all…

— Ray Bradbury

In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder…

— Ray Bradbury

I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves…

— Ray Bradbury

The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was…

— Ray Bradbury