Top 816 Quotes & Sayings by Ray Bradbury - Page 2

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

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

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

We've got to dumb America up again.

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.

Facts are not interesting to me.

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

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

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

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

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

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.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

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

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

We're all dreamers.

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.

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

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

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.

Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

All of my writing is God-given.

I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

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

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

I'm not a futurist.

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.

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

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?'

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.