Ray Bradbury Quotes

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Ray Bradbury

Profession : Writer

Birth : August 22, 1920

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Ray Bradbury

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

Ray Bradbury

Facts are not interesting to me.

Ray Bradbury

We've got to dumb America up again.

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

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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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I don't do research. I never have.

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I don't believe in colleges and universities.

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I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

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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.

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I got started as an actor when I was 12.

Ray Bradbury

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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

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I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

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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.

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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time.

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I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

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The important thing is to be in love with something.

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'Fahrenheit 451' postulates a lot of things I didn't want to have happen.

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

Ray Bradbury