Quotes from Ray Bradbury

Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Libraries raised me.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

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.

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

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.

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.

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

Good writers touch life often.

Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.