The Best Ray Bradbury quotes

It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. — Ray Bradbury

Electronic books are junk. — Ray Bradbury

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive. — Ray Bradbury

There is more than one way to burn a book. — Ray Bradbury

A book is a loaded gun. — Ray Bradbury

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. — Ray Bradbury

We’re nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise. — Ray Bradbury

There is no future for e–books, because they are not books. E–books smell like burned fuel. — Ray Bradbury

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

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

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury

Books are flesh–and–blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch. — Ray Bradbury

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. — Ray Bradbury

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books….. — Ray Bradbury

Don’t judge a book by its cover. — Ray Bradbury

What’s the point of having a library full of books you’ve already read? — Ray Bradbury

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. — Ray Bradbury

You don’t have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non–knowers? — Ray Bradbury

All isn’t well with the world. — Ray Bradbury

See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream. — Ray Bradbury

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

There is only one type of story in the world–your story. — Ray Bradbury

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War. — Ray Bradbury

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here. — Ray Bradbury

No,’ said a voice, ‘the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it. — Ray Bradbury

I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly. — Ray Bradbury

We are anthill men upon an anthill world. — Ray Bradbury

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him. — Ray Bradbury

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. — Ray Bradbury

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not. — Ray Bradbury

See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security. — Ray Bradbury

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much? — Ray Bradbury

Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did. — Ray Bradbury

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination. — Ray Bradbury

It’s the way God runs the world.’ Tom thought about this for a moment. ‘He’s all right, Doug,’ said Tom. ‘He tries. — Ray Bradbury

I’ve heard rumors; the world is starving, but we’re well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much? — Ray Bradbury

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper. — Ray Bradbury

The great thing about my life is that everything I’ve done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13. — Ray Bradbury

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible. — Ray Bradbury

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap. — Ray Bradbury

The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool. — Ray Bradbury

If you’re reluctant to weep, you won’t live a full and complete life. — Ray Bradbury

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

Fire the doubters out of your life. — Ray Bradbury

Life should be touched, not strangled. — Ray Bradbury

Libraries are the center of our lives. There’s no use going to a university if you don’t live at the library. — Ray Bradbury

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys. — Ray Bradbury

I never in my life argued with a piece of cake or a bowl of ice cream. — Ray Bradbury

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. — Ray Bradbury

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. — Ray Bradbury

Good writers touch life often. — Ray Bradbury

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive. — Ray Bradbury

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization. — Ray Bradbury

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice! — Ray Bradbury

Life is about trying things to see if they work. — Ray Bradbury

I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously. — Ray Bradbury

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. — Ray Bradbury

You fail only if you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury

Love is easy, and I love writing. — Ray Bradbury

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. — Ray Bradbury

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love. — Ray Bradbury

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

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

A day without writing was a little death. — Ray Bradbury

If you write a hundred short stories and they’re all bad, that doesn’t mean you’ve failed. You fail only if you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury

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. — Ray Bradbury

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

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, ‘I love you for what you do.’ — Ray Bradbury

I don’t control my writing–it controls me. — Ray Bradbury

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. — Ray Bradbury

I started writing every day. I never stopped. — Ray Bradbury

All of my writing is God–given. — Ray Bradbury

Every story I’ve written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. — Ray Bradbury

I’ve been writing every day of my life for 65 years. — Ray Bradbury

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up. — Ray Bradbury

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped. — Ray Bradbury

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do. — Ray Bradbury

You’re either in love with what you do, or you’re not in love. — Ray Bradbury

I want your loves to be multiple. I don’t want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it. — Ray Bradbury

Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love. — Ray Bradbury

You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive. — Ray Bradbury

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love. — Ray Bradbury

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. — Ray Bradbury

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don’t. — Ray Bradbury

Love cushions all your irritations, unnatural instincts, hatreds and immaturities. — Ray Bradbury

My job is to help you fall in love. — Ray Bradbury

If someone sends you a love letter you’ve got to answer back. — Ray Bradbury

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything. — Ray Bradbury

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films. — Ray Bradbury

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. — Ray Bradbury

Look for the little loves. Find and shape the little bitternesses. — Ray Bradbury

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his. — Ray Bradbury

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. — Ray Bradbury

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her. — Ray Bradbury

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

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. — Ray Bradbury

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. — Ray Bradbury

The real fear isn’t rejection, but that there won’t be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you. — Ray Bradbury

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. — Ray Bradbury

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

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time. — Ray Bradbury

The Martians were there–in the canal–reflected in the water…. The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water…. — Ray Bradbury

Why is it, he said, one time, at the subway entrance, I feel I’ve known you so many years? — Ray Bradbury

The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It’s what you want that counts, not what your time wants. — Ray Bradbury

But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last. — Ray Bradbury

We can’t be good unless we know what bad is, and it’s a shame we’re working against time. — Ray Bradbury

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that. — Ray Bradbury

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace. — Ray Bradbury

Isn’t this a nice time of night to walk? I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise. — Ray Bradbury

All the things which had uses. All the mountains which had names. We’ll give them new names, but the old names are there, somewhere in time… — Bradbury

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. — Ray Bradbury

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. — Ray Bradbury

Fantasies are things that can’t happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen. — Ray Bradbury

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. — Ray Bradbury

Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible. — Ray Bradbury

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. — Ray Bradbury

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. — Ray Bradbury

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. — Ray Bradbury

Science–fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off. — Ray Bradbury

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It’s the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened. — Ray Bradbury

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. — Ray Bradbury

There’s a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They’re mindless. So you can’t learn from those kinds of films. — Ray Bradbury

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. — Ray Bradbury

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‘The Martian Chronicles.’ — Ray Bradbury

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. — Ray Bradbury