Quotes By Ray Bradbury

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.