Quotes by Ray Bradbury

About Ray Bradbury:

Raymond Douglas "Ray" Bradbury was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American genre writers. He wrote and consulted on many screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works have been adapted into comic books, television shows, and films.
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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Ray Bradbury

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

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I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

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And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

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If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

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...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an...

Ray Bradbury

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

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You fail only if you stop writing.

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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Ray Bradbury

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Ray Bradbury

I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.

Ray Bradbury

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Ray Bradbury

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Ray Bradbury

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

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Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameRay Bradbury
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornAugust 23, 1920
  • DiedJune 5, 2012
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Novelist; Poet; Writer
  • WorksFahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles; Something Wicked This Way Comes
  • AwardsNational Medal Of Arts; Prometheus Award - Hall Of Fame