Quotes from Ray Bradbury

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we'd die, we'd wander around and sleep like cats.

The blows of his heart might jar him loose, crash him down, but he was glad to hear them, know himself alive.

Trick, yes, trick.' The boys were catching fire with the idea. It made all the good glue go out of their joints and put a little dust of sin in their blood. They felt it stir around until it pumped on up to light their eyes and stretch their lips to show their happy-dog teeth. 'Yeah, sure

What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or trigger-trapping.

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

Thinking a man good, we risk his duplicity. Thinking a man bad, we deny sanctuary.

Those who don't build must burn

Summer was over. Of course you can't tell in Los Angeles.

Meet him in the air?" Tom snorted, "good grief, talk about horrible directions to nowhere.

But stop and think. What does the word with truly mean? Wits, intelligence. That's all it means. Knowledge so any man or woman with half a brain and inclination toward learning had his wits about him, ey? And so anyone too smart who didn't watch out, was called a witch.

Life is short, misery sure, mortality certain.

Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Double, triple, quadruple population. Films and radios, magazines, books levelled down to a sort of paste pudding norm

They felt lonely. They felt so alone, they wanted to cry.

There is no cause for nostalgia save the good and life-enhancing nostalgia for the present.

Pipkin: an assemblage of speeds, smells, textures. A cross section of all the boys who ever ran, fell, got up, and ran again.

Will became a bush under a bush, a shadow among shadows, with two starlight rounds of glass, his eyes, holding the image of Jim calling up in a whisper toward the second floor windows (Bradbury 90). This quote shows that Will hid behind the bush so well that no one can see him, that he became a shadow among shadows. The phrase shadow among shadows is to show that no one can see him, he is a shadow in a shadow

They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running.

Deep, deep down in the deepest Deeps. Isn't that a word now, Johnny, a real word, it says so much: the Deeps. There's all the coldness and darkness and deepness in the world in a word like that.

All he really knew was that if he stayed here he would soon be the property of things that buzzed and snorted and hissed, that gave off fumes or stenches. In six months, he would be the owner of a large pink, trained ulcer, a blood pressure of algebraic dimensions, a myopia this side of blindness, and nightmares as deep as oceans and infested with improbable lengths of dream intestines through which he must violently force his way each night.

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There are some people who live to be thirty-five or forty, but because no one ever notices, their lives are candle-brief, invisible-small.

We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any news.

One Without the other is nothing

I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good. But I don't want to set out to influence people. I don't want to set out to change the world in any self-conscious way. That way leads to self-destruction; that way, you're pontificating, and that's dangerous and it's boring - you're going to put people right to sleep.