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
fiction god millions schools science students thank
Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'
art fiction happens
The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.
fiction labels fantasy
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
reality different fiction
Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.
art fiction impossible
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.
fiction-stories world moral
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.
teacher fiction fables
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
party would-be fiction
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.
balance fiction cliffs
Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
men fiction needs
Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.
wings fiction way
The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.
fiction fantasy science-fiction
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
book fiction fantasy
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.
growing-up fields fiction
When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.