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Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
— Buzz Aldrin
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
— Ray Bradbury
Ignorance is fatal.
— Ray Bradbury
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
— Ray Bradbury
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY Prolific American author of science fiction and fantasy
— Jack Canfield
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.Ray Bradbury — T.K. Thorne
Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.
— Ray Bradbury
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
— Ray Bradbury
Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them ...
— Ray Bradbury
I don't do research. I never have.
— Ray Bradbury
It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious.
— Ray Bradbury
I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags.
— Ray Bradbury
You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?
— Ray Bradbury
and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,
— Ray Bradbury
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
— Ray Bradbury
Because of what I loved at 7, I still get jobs in my 60's. Guess who got the job? Crazy Ray.Ray Bradbury — Sherri Rabinowitz
I don't know anything any more, he said, and let a sleep lozenge dissolve on his tongue
— Ray Bradbury
Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.
— Ray Bradbury
I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
— Ray Bradbury
No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
— Ray Bradbury
Who has more pockets than a magician?A boy.
Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians?
A boy's. — Ray Bradbury
Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
— Ray Bradbury
Yes, Mr. Douglas, insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." The
— Ray Bradbury
Evil has only the power we give it.
— Ray Bradbury
She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why ... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often.
— Ray Bradbury
Fire the doubters out of your life.
— Ray Bradbury
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..
— Ray Bradbury
The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.
— Ray Bradbury
I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.
— Ray Bradbury
My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous.""Men like that always are. — Ray Bradbury
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
— Ray Bradbury
went to the Rock to hide my face And the Rock cried out, "No Hiding Place, There's no Hiding Place down here.
— Ray Bradbury
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.
— Ray Bradbury
I suppose it's an unconscious little stream of wit that flows quietly under everything I do or say.
— Ray Bradbury
But that was another Mildred so deep inside this one, and so bothered, really bothered, that the two women had never met.
— Ray Bradbury
Once upon a time! What kind of talk is that?
— Ray Bradbury
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
— Ray Bradbury
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 dust of Egypt ...
— Ray Bradbury
It could reach up and grab the moon.
— Ray Bradbury
Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
— Ray Bradbury
I don't know anything anymore
— Ray Bradbury
We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth
— Ray Bradbury
And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.
— Ray Bradbury
They got Indian vision and can sight back further than you and me will ever sight ahead.
— Ray Bradbury
Write what you love and love what you write.
— Ray Bradbury
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
— Ray Bradbury
I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.
— Ray Bradbury
It's bad to get up early, stand at your typewriter and work, then find it's nothing and take a bottle to bed.
— Ray Bradbury
Heaven is a house with porch lights.
— Ray Bradbury
Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way?
— Ray Bradbury
What did you give to the city, Montag?Ashes.
What did the others give to each other?
Nothingness. — Ray Bradbury
..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
— Ray Bradbury
His flesh took paleness from his bones.
— Ray Bradbury
Most men jump at the chance to give up everything for nothing. There's nothing we're so slapstick with as our own immortal souls.
— Ray Bradbury
The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything.
— Ray Bradbury
Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
— Ray Bradbury
Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.
— Ray Bradbury
The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
— Ray Bradbury
You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you.
— Ray Bradbury
It doesn't have to be the greatest. It does have to be you.
— Ray Bradbury
Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
— Ray Bradbury
I think the sun is a flower,That blooms for just one hour. — Ray Bradbury
At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!
— Ray Bradbury
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
— Ray Bradbury
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
— Ray Bradbury
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
— Ray Bradbury
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
— Ray Bradbury
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.
— Ray Bradbury
Going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for dinner.
— Ray Bradbury
I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?
— Ray Bradbury
Life should be touched, not strangled.
— Ray Bradbury
There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house.
— Ray Bradbury
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead ... We're nothing more than dust jackets for books ... so many pages to a person ...
— Ray Bradbury
What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.
— Ray Bradbury
I wish I had known him, but he was just another shadow outside my screen door and I already had a sufficiency of shadows in.
— Ray Bradbury
I care so much I'm sick.
— Ray Bradbury