Quotes By Ray Bradbury

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

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.

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.

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

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.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

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.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

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.

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.

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.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

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

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.