Ray Bradbury Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
There was white in the flesh of his mouth and his cheeks and his hair was white and his eyes had faded, with white in the vague blueness there.
A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.
I don't talk things, sir,' said Faber. 'I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive.
Perhaps I expected to look in and find a giant canary, stretched out on a carpet of dust, songless, capable of only heart murmurs for talk.
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
The first light on the roof outside; very early morning. The leaves on all the trees tremble with a soft awakening to any breeze the dawn may offer.
Faber sniffed the book. Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy.
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.
People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person.
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.
In your life, did you know enthusiasm?' If the answer is yes you enter the sky. If no, you fall to burn in the pit.
They read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house.
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
went to the Rock to hide my face And the Rock cried out, "No Hiding Place, There's no Hiding Place down here.
They sat on the edge of a brook and took off their shoes and let the water cut their feet off to the ankles with an exquisite cold razor.
I don't write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn't set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.
Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.
You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God's voice mingling among the crystal fires.
Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.