Quotes By Ray Bradbury

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

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.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

We're all dreamers.

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

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.

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

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

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Libraries raised me.

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

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

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

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

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

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

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

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Facts are not interesting to me.

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

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.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.