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 gun men
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
whispering shouting worst
What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
shadow rooms poverty
Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.
farenheit-451
I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
country attitude real
I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.
crazy men talking
Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.
thinking average people
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.
sweet eye soul
Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.
hollywood influence film
Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.
summer flower smell
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.
sadness people special
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
order years numbers
My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.
moon should-have space
We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.
writing failing inspiration-to-write
You fail only if you stop writing.