Quotes By Ray Bradbury

My business is to prevent the future.

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

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.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

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.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

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.

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.

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.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

We're all dreamers.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

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

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Libraries raised me.

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

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

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?

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

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

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

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.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.