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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So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

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Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it's too late for them. Why do you want to go back with them? So you can keep up with the Joneses? To buy a gyro just like the Smith has? To listen to m...

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In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them,...

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Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.

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The Mexican people, once they have happened on a good food, he thought, flay the thing to distraction. Ham and eggs every morning now for two weeks. Since arriving in Guanajuato, bearing his typewriter, it had been the same thing each morning at nine...

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To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let ...

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Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, Live ...

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I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.

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I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

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Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think - the pillars crumbled, you say? And the sea empty, and the canals dry, and the maidens dead, and the flowers withered?" The Martian was silent, but then he looked ahea...

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Good to evil seems evil a

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He was still a kid inside. His body had grown, stretched, towered, tanned its skin, hardened its muscle, darkened its tawny shock of long hair, tightened its lines around jaw and eyes, thickened fingers and knuckles, but the brain didn't feel as if i...

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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

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We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

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Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there w...

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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..

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To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

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Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

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

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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

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Surprise is where creativity comes in.

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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