Ray Bradbury

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

— Ray Bradbury

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then…

— Ray Bradbury

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

— Ray Bradbury

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

— Ray Bradbury

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden…

— Ray Bradbury

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

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,…

— 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

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a…

— Ray Bradbury

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and…

— Ray Bradbury

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

— Ray Bradbury

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

— 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

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

— Ray Bradbury

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

— Ray Bradbury

“Anything that's strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn't have Chicago plumbing, it's nonsense.”

— Ray Bradbury

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

— Ray Bradbury

“It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state.…

— Ray Bradbury

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

— Ray Bradbury

“He knew it would take as many years as he could think of now to forget the tracks, no matter how deeply…

— Ray Bradbury

“I am not one thing. I am many things that America has been in my time. I had enough sense to keep…

— Ray Bradbury

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!

— Ray Bradbury

“More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun, and you don't have to think, eh? Organize and organize and superorganize super-super sports. More…

— Ray Bradbury

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing…

— Ray Bradbury

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January…

— Ray Bradbury