Ray Bradbury Quotes

I like to cry. After I cry hard it’s like it’s morning again and I’m starting the day over.

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can ma...

I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a de...

If she fell, if she broke, you'd find a million fragments in the morning. Bright crystal and clear wine on the parquet flooring, that's all you'd see at dawn.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

In real life, as we know, the failure to relax a particular tension can lead to madness.

In the attic where the rain touched the roof softly on spring days and where you could feel the mantle of snow outside, a few inches away, on December nights, A Thousand Times Great Grandmère existed....

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break eggs at the smaller end.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

It learned you can’t love anything too much in this world.

It stood in the middle of a vast yard behind the terribly strange house. And this tree rose up some one hundred feet in the air, taller than the high roofs and full and round and well branched, and co...

It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the...

It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think yo...

It's the way God runs the world.Tom thought about this for a moment.He's all right, Doug, said Tom. He tries.

It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlor families’ today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the...

It’s strange, I don’t miss her, it’s strange I don’t feel much of anything, said Montag. Even if she dies, I realized a moment ago, I don’t think I’ll feel sad. It isn’t right. Something must be wrong...

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!

I’ve heard the rumors about hate, too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don’t, that’s sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making...

I’ve tried to teach my writing friends that there are two arts: number one, getting a thing done; and then, the second great art is learning how to cut it so you don’t kill it or hurt it in any way. W...