Ray Bradbury Quotes

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Ray Bradbury

Profession : Writer

Birth : August 22, 1920

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?

Ray Bradbury

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Ray Bradbury

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

Libraries raised me.

Ray Bradbury

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.

Ray Bradbury

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

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.

Ray Bradbury

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.

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

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.

Ray Bradbury

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

Ray Bradbury

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Ray Bradbury

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Ray Bradbury

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.

Ray Bradbury

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

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.

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury