Quotes By Ray Bradbury

My business is to prevent the future.

Facts are not interesting to me.

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

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.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

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

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

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.

I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

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.

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

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

All of my writing is God-given.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

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

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

You fail only if you stop writing.

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

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.