Ray Bradbury Quotes And Sayings

I Have Total Recall. I Remember Being Born. I Remember Being In The Womb, I Remember Being Inside. Coming Out Was Great.

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.

If God Treats You Well By Teaching You A Disastrous Lesson, You Never Forget It.

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?

Jump, And You Will Find Out How To Unfold Your Wings As You Fall.

Video Games Are A Waste Of Time For Men With Nothing Else To Do. Real Brains Don't Do That.

The Great Fun In My Life Has Been Getting Up Every Morning And Rushing To The Typewriter Because Some New Idea Has Hit Me.

Everything Is Generated Through Your Own Will Power.

Collecting Facts Is Important. Knowledge Is Important. But If You Don't Have An Imagination To Use The Knowledge, Civilization Is Nowhere.

I Discovered Me In The Library. I Went To Find Me In The Library.

There Are Worse Crimes Than Burning Books. One Of Them Is Not Reading Them.

I Have A Big Box Of Autographs. I Took Photographs Of Me And Marlene Dietrich, Me And Ida Lupino. I Took Pictures Of Myrna Loy And Joel Mccrea In Front Of The Studios. I Loved Hollywood. I Have 500 Autographs And 500 Photographs I Took.

If You Are Going To Describe The History Of Animation, You'd Look At The Early Disney Work, Then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' And Other Warner Brothers Theatrical Productions. But When You Got To 'Rocky And Bullwinkle,' You'd See They Were Unique: They Assumed You Had A Brain In Your Head.

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.

I'm Not In Control Of My Muse. My Muse Does All The Work.

Love Is Easy, And I Love Writing. You Can't Resist Love. You Get An Idea, Someone Says Something, And You're In Love.

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.

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.

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.

I Have My Favorite Cat, Who Is My Paperweight, On My Desk While I Am Writing.

I'm Not A Serious Person, And I Don't Like Serious People.

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.

If You Know How To Read, You Have A Complete Education About Life, Then You Know How To Vote Within A Democracy. But If You Don't Know How To Read, You Don't Know How To Decide. That's The Great Thing About Our Country - We're A Democracy Of Readers, And We Should Keep It That Way.

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.

You Don't Have To Turn On The Tv Set. You Don't Have To Work On The Internet. It's Up To You.

I've Been Afraid Of People Playing Their Life Away With Too Many Toys.

I Write Screenplays In The Middle Of The Night.

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.

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.

If You Dream The Proper Dreams, And Share The Myths With People, They Will Want To Grow Up To Be Like You.

You Fail Only If You Stop Writing.

If You Enjoy Living, It Is Not Difficult To Keep The Sense Of Wonder.

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.

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 Have Fun With Ideas; I Play With Them.

Journalism Keeps You Planted In The Earth.

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.

It's Not Going To Do Any Good To Land On Mars If We're Stupid.

We've Gotta Reinvest In Space Travel. We Should've Never Left The Moon.

Books Are Alive, You See. They're Not Dead, They're Alive.

If An Idea Isn't Exciting, You Shouldn't Do It.

The Answer To All Writing, To Any Career For That Matter, Is Love.

We've Gotta Become The Martians. I'm A Martian - I Tell You To Become Martians. And We've Gotta Go To Mars And Civilize Mars And Build A Whole Civilization On Mars And Then Move Out, 300 Years From Now Into The Universe. And When We Do That, We Have A Chance Of Living Forever.

I Don't Control My Writing - It Controls Me.

I Couldn't Go To College, So I Went To The Library Three Days A Week For 10 Years.

Burroughs Is Crap. Crap.

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.

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.