Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

"Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination."
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"Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination."
Ray Bradbury
"We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon."
Ray Bradbury
"A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt."
Ray Bradbury
"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."
Ray Bradbury
"Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere."
Ray Bradbury
"We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever."
Ray Bradbury
"When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination."
Ray Bradbury
"The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me."
Ray Bradbury
"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."
Ray Bradbury
"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."
Ray Bradbury
"Touch a scientist and you touch a child."
Ray Bradbury
"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible."
Ray Bradbury
"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it."
Ray Bradbury
"When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money."
Ray Bradbury
"I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars."
Ray Bradbury
"If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you."
Ray Bradbury
"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."
Ray Bradbury
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."
Ray Bradbury
"You can't try to do things you simply must do them."
Ray Bradbury
"You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life."
Ray Bradbury
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