Quotes from Ray Bradbury

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

We're all dreamers.

We've got to dumb America up again.

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

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 don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

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.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.