Ray Bradbury Quotes And Sayings

We've Got To Dumb America Up Again.

All My Stories Are Like The Greek And Roman Myths, And The Egyptian Myths, And The Old And New Testament.

All The Women In My Life Have Been Librarians, English Teachers And Book Sellers.

'Fahrenheit 451' Postulates A Lot Of Things I Didn't Want To Have Happen.

Most Members Of Congress Are Politicians. They're Bores.

Touch A Scientist And You Touch A Child.

You Can't Try To Do Things; You Simply Must Do Them.

My Business Is To Prevent The Future.

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.

When I Graduated From High School, It Was During The Depression And We Had No Money.

We Are Anthill Men Upon An Anthill World.

My Goal Is To Entertain Myself And Others.

You Can Write A Short Story In Two Hours. Two Hours A Day, You Have A Novel In A Year.

I Think The Reason My Stories Have Been So Successful Is That I Have A Strong Sense Of Metaphor.

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.

Without Libraries What Have We? We Have No Past And No Future.

Everything Is My Demon Muse. I Have A Muse Which Whispers In My Ear And Says, 'Do This, Do That,' But It's My Demon Who Provokes Me.

Everybody Has Forgotten That Russia Helped Start The Second World War.

I Find It Amusing That I'm On The Internet Now, Because I've Criticized It, But Mainly I've Criticized It On The Basis Of, 'What Are You Going To Do With It?'

When You're Older You Want To Learn From Other People.

The Internet Is A Big Distraction.

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.

Electronic Books Are Junk.

When I Was Seven Or Eight Years Old, I Began To Read The Science-fiction Magazines That Were Brought By Guests Into My Grandparents' Boarding House In Waukegan, Illinois. Those Were The Years When Hugo Gernsback Was Publishing 'Amazing Stories,' With Vivid, Appallingly Imaginative Cover Paintings That Fed My Hungry Imagination.

I'm Never Going To Go To Mars, But I've Helped Inspire, Thank Goodness, The People Who Built The Rockets And Sent Our Photographic Equipment Off To Mars.

Most Of My Short Stories Are Fantasy.

I Don't See Myself As A Philosopher. That's Awfully Boring.

We're All Dreamers.

The First Stories I Wrote When I Was 12 Were About Mars And Landing On Mars.

I Don't See Myself As A Philosopher. That's Awfully Boring.

All Of My Writing Is God-given.

I Have Spent My Life Going From Mania To Mania. Somehow It Has All Paid Off.