Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. Hope, our collection of Ray Bradbury quotes will inspire you to live your life purposefully.
You fail only if you stop writing.
– Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury Quotes
1. “Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.” – Ray Bradbury
2. “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.” – Ray Bradbury
3. “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.” – Ray Bradbury
4. “Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.” – Ray Bradbury
5. “If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.” – Ray Bradbury
6. “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
7. “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” – Ray Bradbury
8. “I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.” – Ray Bradbury
9. “You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.” – Ray Bradbury
10. “Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.” – Ray Bradbury
11. “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” – Ray Bradbury
12. “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.” – Ray Bradbury
13. “There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.” – Ray Bradbury
14. “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” – Ray Bradbury
15. “Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.” – Ray Bradbury
16. “Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.” – Ray Bradbury
17. “It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.” – Ray Bradbury
18. “The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.” – Ray Bradbury
19. “The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.” – Ray Bradbury
20. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury
21. “You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” – Ray Bradbury
22. “So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.” – Ray Bradbury
23. “Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.” – Ray Bradbury
24. “Everything that happens before Death is what counts.” – Ray Bradbury
25. “Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.” – Ray Bradbury
26. “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door…Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” – Ray Bradbury
27. “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.” – Ray Bradbury
28. “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
29. “Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.” – Ray Bradbury
30. “Fantasies are things that can’t happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.” – Ray Bradbury
31. “Don’t write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won’t write anything worth reading.” – Ray Bradbury
32. “I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.” – Ray Bradbury
33. “The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.” – Ray Bradbury
34. “We are anthill men upon an anthill world.” – Ray Bradbury
35. “The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.” – Ray Bradbury
36. “If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.” – Ray Bradbury
37. “Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you’re twenty.” – Ray Bradbury
38. “Life is about trying things to see if they work.” – Ray Bradbury
39. “We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” – Ray Bradbury
40. “All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.” – Ray Bradbury
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