Quotes By Ray Bradbury

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

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.

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

You fail only if you stop writing.

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.

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

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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

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.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.