Ray Bradbury

"Looking back at your life, you will realize that love was the answer to everything."

- Ray Bradbury

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

- Ray Bradbury

"Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve."

- Ray Bradbury

"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."

- Ray Bradbury

"Evil has only the power that we give it."

- Ray Bradbury

"Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it."

- Ray Bradbury

"We are cups constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

- Ray Bradbury

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

- Ray Bradbury

"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."

- Ray Bradbury

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."

- Ray Bradbury

"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."

- Ray Bradbury

"See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream."

- Ray Bradbury

"Work. Don’t think. Relax."

- Ray Bradbury

"I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me."

- Ray Bradbury

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."

- Ray Bradbury

"First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!"

- Ray Bradbury

"I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true — hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it."

- Ray Bradbury

"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it."

- Ray Bradbury

"I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true— hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it."

- Ray Bradbury

"Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations."

- Ray Bradbury

"Life is trying things to see if they work."

- Ray Bradbury

"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity."

- Ray Bradbury

"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."

- Ray Bradbury

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

- Ray Bradbury

"Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in."

- Ray Bradbury

"Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way."

- Ray Bradbury

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."

- Ray Bradbury

"You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address."

- Ray Bradbury

"... There was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire. He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground."

- Ray Bradbury

"You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

- Ray Bradbury

"Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve."

- Ray Bradbury

"It was a pleasure to burn."

- Ray Bradbury

"One day you discover you are alive… but, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon."

- Ray Bradbury

"Sunsets are loved because they vanish."

- Ray Bradbury

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

- Ray Bradbury

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."

- Ray Bradbury

"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."

- Ray Bradbury

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touches some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there."

- Ray Bradbury

"The animal does not question life. It lives. Its very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life."

- Ray Bradbury

"Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it."

- Ray Bradbury

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built of a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touches some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there."

- Ray Bradbury

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies... A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there."

- Ray Bradbury

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies… Something your hand touches some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there."

- Ray Bradbury

"And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That’s a triumph."

- Ray Bradbury

"In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required."

- Ray Bradbury

"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers."

- Ray Bradbury

"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers"

- Ray Bradbury

"The sun did not rise, it overflowed."

- Ray Bradbury

"The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills."

- Ray Bradbury

"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers."

- Ray Bradbury

"Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that’s life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever."

- Ray Bradbury