Quotes from Ray Bradbury

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

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.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

Fire the doubters out of your life.