41 beautiful quotes by Ray Bradbury. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
← Browse all quotes
Ray Bradbury
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business ...
“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world ...
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
“So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.”
“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of th...
“You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas ...
“We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing...It is not books you need, it's some ...
“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What ...
“These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their o...
“For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a per...
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a dr...
“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I...
“Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic t...
“Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest ar...
“We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool toda...
“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
“His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do ...
“Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortabl...
“The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn boo...
“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff b...
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin ...
“We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us ...
“Libraries raised me.”
“God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can ...
“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.”
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing...
“That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving som...
“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be so...
“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for...
“See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no secu...
“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with...
“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”
“I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages,...
“Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity....
“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one gro...
“There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [...
“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”
