Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

"See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
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"See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
Ray Bradbury
"I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics."
Ray Bradbury
"Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew."
Ray Bradbury
"The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain."
Ray Bradbury
"Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it's too late for them. Why do you want to go back with them? So you can keep up with the Joneses? To buy a gyro just like the Smith has? To listen to music with your pocketbook instead of your glands?"
Ray Bradbury
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
Ray Bradbury
"There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath."
Ray Bradbury
"That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other."
Ray Bradbury
"So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily."
Ray Bradbury
"It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt..."
Ray Bradbury
"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."
Ray Bradbury
"Libraries raised me."
Ray Bradbury
"(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?)Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry."
Ray Bradbury
"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."
Ray Bradbury
"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible."
Ray Bradbury
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
Ray Bradbury
"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."
Ray Bradbury
"Surprise is where creativity comes in."
Ray Bradbury
"Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an actionis through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire letrun, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It canonly be dynamic. So, stand aside, forget targets, let the characters, your fingers, body, blood, and heart do."
Ray Bradbury
"To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start."
Ray Bradbury
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