Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon. — 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
My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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… — 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
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 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 trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to… — 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. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder… — 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
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
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
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
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
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
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
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
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