Ray Bradbury Quotes

"If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it."
-Ray Bradbury

"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?"
-Ray Bradbury

"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."
-Ray Bradbury in Writing quotes.

"Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquence."
-Ray Bradbury

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
-Ray Bradbury

"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
-Ray Bradbury

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."
-Ray Bradbury in Writing quotes.

"You fail only if you stop writing."
-Ray Bradbury

"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."
-Ray Bradbury

"All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try."
-Ray Bradbury

"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."
-Ray Bradbury

"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
-Ray Bradbury

"I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives."
-Ray Bradbury

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
-Ray Bradbury

"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane."
-Ray Bradbury