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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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Ray Bradbury

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing an...

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I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

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All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

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Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

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Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

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 than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry Jame...

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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

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I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.

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When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

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We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

Ray Bradbury

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

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First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

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Everything is generated through your own will power.

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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

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Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

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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