Quotes By Ray Bradbury

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me.After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

You fail only if you stop writing.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

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

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

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.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

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

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

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.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

My business is to prevent the future.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

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.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

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.

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

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.