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
important important-things
The important thing is to be in love with something.
passion typewriters worry
My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.
letting-go running writing
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
book egypt smell
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
children science disrespectful
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
art writing ideas
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
book names telephones
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.
library use university
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
country democracy way
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
book magic together
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
should
A life's work should be based on love.
book house burning
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
fiction fantasy science-fiction
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
book dust smell
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...