69 result(s) for Ray Bradbury Quotes.
"I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library."
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
"I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it."
"We are anthill men upon an anthill world."
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
"Stuff your eyes with wonder; live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
"You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfume and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads."
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"It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."
"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"
"I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."
"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."
"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces back together."
"I write to save someone's life, probably my own."
"Do what you love and love what you do."
"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You must simply do things."
"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible."
"I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries."
"I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the universe splits into two paths. Create endlessly."
"If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."
"I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act."
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"We are the creatures and the creators of the entire universe."
"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."
"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
"If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it."
"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write."
"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 make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket."
"There is more than one type of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it."
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
"We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth."
"I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."
"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up, move to another part of the galaxy and never speak to that person again."
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"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
"You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
"First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!"
"Do not insult Bantus. Do not blow on the firecrackers. Do not rename the Nile. Change nothing. Introduce nothing. Do not live mutilated. Do not die heretic. Do not convert yourself into a different actor. Do not be a partisan of Remington. Be only what you are, and play it so for the moment. But accept everything alien, and integrate it – even as the African bee does to make good honey, and stops dead when she does not know, by nature."
"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."
"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."
"We are the benefactors of the dead. We read their fruit of days."
"We are all fools in love."
"We are not born what we could be – all we are born to do is kill time."
"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good friends with."
"Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers."
"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
"You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads."
"I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression, and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years."
"I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
"You can't try to do things; you must simply do them."
"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."
"I wasn’t trying to predict the future. I was trying to prevent it."
"The greatest of great ideas is to become a human being."
"First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down."
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
"You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about."
"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."
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