Quotes By Ray Bradbury

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

My business is to prevent the future.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Libraries raised me.