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
book reason ifs
There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
here-and-there calling madness
God, here and there, makes madness a calling.
balance fiction cliffs
Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
alive remember ifs
I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!
beautiful looks world
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.
able fool looks
You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
men alive down-and
How many times can a man go down and still be alive?
morning men ducks
I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?
book years might
We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
real writing rejection
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
baby falling-in-love parenting
When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.
moon fire forever
We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.
power will-power
Everything is generated through your own will power.
art philosophy book
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.