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Ray Bradbury Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american writer Ray Bradbury on topics like people, writing, life

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

    — Ray Bradbury on reading
    56
  • Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . 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.

    — Ray Bradbury on adventure
    24
  • You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

    — Ray Bradbury on destroy
    16
  • Ray Bradbury quote Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow aftter your character

    Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow aftter your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

    — Ray Bradbury
    6
  • We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.

    The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

    — Ray Bradbury on beautiful
    11
  • First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

    — Ray Bradbury on fear
    9
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  • I love writing, it's the center of my life.

    If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

    — Ray Bradbury on authors
    8
  • Ray Bradbury quote We earth men have a talen for ruining big beautiful things.

    We earth men have a talen for ruining big beautiful things.

    — Ray Bradbury
    7
  • 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.

    — Ray Bradbury on thought
    8
  • If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

    — Ray Bradbury on life
    7
  • Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

    — Ray Bradbury on building
    7
  • Ray Bradbury quote You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop readin

    You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

    — Ray Bradbury
    27
  • The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

    — Ray Bradbury on science
    6
  • I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

    — Ray Bradbury on future
    6
  • 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 on hero
    5
  • Ray Bradbury quote We are on impossibility in an impossible universe.

    We are on impossibility in an impossible universe.

    — Ray Bradbury
    10
  • About Ray Bradbury

    Name Ray Bradbury
    Quotes 159 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Writer
    Birthday October 16
    About American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter.
    Top topics people, writing, life, love, world
  • Life is trying things to see if they work.

    — Ray Bradbury on life
    5
  • It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher.

    Space travel has again made children of us all.

    — Ray Bradbury on space
    4
  • The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

    — Ray Bradbury on books
    3
  • Ray Bradbury quote Life is trying things to see if they work.

    Life is trying things to see if they work.

    — Ray Bradbury
    11
  • Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

    — Ray Bradbury on love
    3
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  • Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for.

    We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

    — Ray Bradbury on america
    2
  • If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

    — Ray Bradbury on quote
    2
  • If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair.

    We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: It's gonna go wrong. Or She's going to hurt me. Or,I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . . Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.

    — Ray Bradbury on inspirational
    2
  • Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

    — Ray Bradbury on window
    1
  • It was a pleasure to burn.

    — Ray Bradbury on lines
    1
  • Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine.

    The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

    — Ray Bradbury on authors
    1
  • Richard Bach with this book does two things.

    He gives me Flight. He makes me Young. For both I am deeply grateful.

    — Ray Bradbury on authors
    1
  • My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing them down - everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

    — Ray Bradbury on bite
    1
  • After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

    — Ray Bradbury on people
    0
  • I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.

    ' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

    — Ray Bradbury on people
    0
  • If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

    — Ray Bradbury on world
    0
  • We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

    — Ray Bradbury on machines
    0
  • I'm not a futurist.

    — Ray Bradbury on futurist
    0
  • I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

    — Ray Bradbury on writing
    0
  • 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.

    — Ray Bradbury on miracles
    0
  • Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

    — Ray Bradbury on knowledge
    0
  • If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.

    — Ray Bradbury on idea
    0
  • 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 and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

    — Ray Bradbury on life
    0
  • Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

    — Ray Bradbury on future
    0
  • There is more than one way to burn a book.

    And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

    — Ray Bradbury on censorship
    0
  • If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

    — Ray Bradbury on god
    0
  • I don't do research. I never have.

    — Ray Bradbury on research
    0
  • Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

    — Ray Bradbury on earth
    0
  • Burroughs is crap. Crap.

    — Ray Bradbury on crap
    0
  • 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 on energy
    0
  • When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family.

    My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.

    — Ray Bradbury on parenting
    0
  • There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

    — Ray Bradbury on work
    0
  • I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.

    — Ray Bradbury on time
    0
  • I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

    — Ray Bradbury on boring
    0
  • 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. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

    — Ray Bradbury on book
    0
  • You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

    — Ray Bradbury on build
    0
  • If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

    — Ray Bradbury on work
    0
  • I got started as an actor when I was 12.

    — Ray Bradbury on actor
    0
  • All of my writing is God-given.

    — Ray Bradbury on writing
    0
  • Related Topics

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    • culture
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    • drop
    • dead
    • ten
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    • world
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    • made
    • paid
    • factories
    • drunk
    • reality
    • stay
    • writing
    • beautiful
    • constantly
    • cups
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