Ray Bradbury
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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.
We're all dreamers.
The Internet is a big distraction.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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.
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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.
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.
Facts are not interesting to me.
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 find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'
All of my writing is God-given.
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.
I'm not a futurist.
I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.
Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.
I write screenplays in the middle of the night.
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.
You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
You fail only if you stop writing.
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.
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.Collection: Love
The terrible tyranny of the majority.Collection: Majority
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.Collection: Treasure
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.Collection: Dream
You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.Collection: Happiness
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.Collection: Inspirational
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.Collection: Inspirational
A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.Collection: Good Night
When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.Collection: Heart
Action is hope. There is no hope without action.Collection: Action
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.Collection: Positive
A book is a loaded gun.Collection: Book
Creativity is a continual surprise.Collection: Creativity
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.Collection: Dark
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.Collection: Night
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.Collection: Believe
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.Collection: Ignorance
Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.Collection: Triumph