Quotes from Ray Bradbury

Andrew Clements

If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things." – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

My business is to prevent the future.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Facts are not interesting to me.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.