Fire the doubters out of your life. Ray Bradbury More Quotes by Ray Bradbury More Quotes From Ray Bradbury The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Ray Bradbury magic together book Without the library, you have no civilization. Ray Bradbury library civilization And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. Ray Bradbury writing war art My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead. Ray Bradbury numbers order years 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 egypt dust book The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. Ray Bradbury martian-chronicles miracle alive Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible. Ray Bradbury martian-chronicles live-life answers All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not. Ray Bradbury beautiful looks world You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it. Ray Bradbury target goal names You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet. Ray Bradbury important feet thinking The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything. Ray Bradbury doe life years We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. Ray Bradbury not-bothered bothered needs 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 writing ideas art But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. Ray Bradbury ignorance people world The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. Ray Bradbury executioners ridiculous judging Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen. Ray Bradbury science-fiction fantasy fiction Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you. Ray Bradbury i-like-you relationship years We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. Ray Bradbury universe impossible science 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 worth-reading reading writing Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. Ray Bradbury fables teacher fiction
