Quotes by Ray Bradbury

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.

— Ray Bradbury

Love

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.

— Ray Bradbury

Education

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom

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

Education

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.

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom

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.

— Ray Bradbury

Love

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom

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

— Ray Bradbury

Hope

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.

— Ray Bradbury

Hope

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom

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.

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom

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.

— Ray Bradbury

Success

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom

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

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

— Ray Bradbury

Love

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

— Ray Bradbury

Life

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

— Ray Bradbury

Life

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.

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

— Ray Bradbury

Hope

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

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom

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.

— Ray Bradbury

Wisdom