Quotes By Ray Bradbury

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

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.

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.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

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 think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.