Quotes from Ray Bradbury

The important thing is to be in love with something.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.

Write what you love and love what you write.

In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.

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.

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 can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time.

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.

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

You fail only if you stop writing.

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.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

I believe in Darwin and God together.

And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

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

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.