Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradburywas an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 August 1920
CityLos Angeles, IL
CountryUnited States of America
fields young
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
philosopher boring
I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
writing
I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
heart cutting men
There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!
mania paid paid-off
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
jobs thinking
I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
interesting facts
Facts are not interesting to me.
typewriters computer
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.
writing love-is secret-love
Love is easy, and I love writing.
girl reading home
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?
library needs university
A library is all the university you will ever need.
halloween climbing tree
Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'
book reading smell
So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.
dark simple light
We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.