Quotes from Ray Bradbury

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe

Do what you love and love what you do. Don't do anything for money. Everything should be for love.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

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

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!