Ray Bradbury Quotes
It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.
What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.
Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.
Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
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.
That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.
What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!
So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!
Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.
I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.
People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.
What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.
Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.
Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.