Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it. Ray Bradbury More Quotes by Ray Bradbury More Quotes From Ray Bradbury Beware the autumn people Ray Bradbury autumnpeople We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose. Ray Bradbury dogbeautifulmen As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about. Ray Bradbury readingcommitmentart Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future. Ray Bradbury menfictionneeds I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done. Ray Bradbury creativenumberspeople When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field. Ray Bradbury growing-upfieldsfiction If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back. Ray Bradbury love-letteranswersletters The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are. Ray Bradbury dangerousknowscan-do The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. Ray Bradbury honestfasterwriting People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way. Ray Bradbury mindwritingpeople It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Ray Bradbury technologythank-godgovernment My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution. Ray Bradbury psychologynamesgiving I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun. Ray Bradbury benefitswritingfun There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life! Ray Bradbury cuttingheartmen Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing. Ray Bradbury homewritingnight Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done. Ray Bradbury fatsbalancedone 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.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction! Ray Bradbury reallawart All education is self-discovery. Ray Bradbury self-discoveryselfdiscovery You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films. Ray Bradbury libraryfilmliterature You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves. Ray Bradbury storiesmindwriting
