Ray Bradbury

Quotes

• “If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business b...”
• “From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly t...”
• “Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for...”
• “You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff bo...”
• “I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I ...”
• “If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into busines...”
• “Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of...”
• “Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have t...”
• “Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to ge...”
• “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax,...”
• “Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "t...”
• “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful ...”
• “Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art...”
• “We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.”
• “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
• “The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”
• “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
• “We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.”
• “Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”
• “It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.”
• “First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
• “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
• “Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
• “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
• “Surprise is where creativity comes in.”
• “Libraries raised me.”