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Ray Bradbury Quotes
![[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became a unicorn Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/755/754459/754459.webp "[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became a unicorn Picture Quote #1")
![There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/755/754460/754460.webp "There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath Picture Quote #1")
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[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became a unicorn (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
It’s important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it’s perfume, it’s incense, it’s the dust of Egypt (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
Remember, Montag, we’re the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it’s up to you to know with which ear you’ll listen (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes! (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can’t sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
What do you do, go around trying everything once?’ he asked. ‘Sometimes twice, (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
We’re all watching each other, so there’s no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we’ve done fine tonight. Even Death can’t spoil it (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
Why then you’re as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust ‘reality’ and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight! (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you’re seventeen you know everything. When you’re twenty-seven if you still know everything you’re still seventeen (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let’s stuff our eyes with wonder, let’s live as if we’d drop dead in ten seconds. Let’s see the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
I’ve never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: ‘Am I being joyful?’ And if you’ve got a writer’s block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you’re writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It’s the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
... someday we’ll remember so much we’ll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
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 (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
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 (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
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 (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
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? (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
You’d type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite (Ray Bradbury Quotes)
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers (Ray Bradbury Quotes)