I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it. Ray Bradbury More Quotes by Ray Bradbury More Quotes From Ray Bradbury Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. Ray Bradbury funinspirationaltravel When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years. Ray Bradbury readingwritingschool Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room. Ray Bradbury shadowsoundrooms Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto. Ray Bradbury zestcreatingnames The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked. Ray Bradbury catcuttingnight We are anthill men upon an anthill world. Ray Bradbury menworld I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done. Ray Bradbury helldonetwo 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 gunmenbook What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them? Ray Bradbury shoutingwhisperingworst We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. Ray Bradbury mountainjudgingmen The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best. Ray Bradbury speakteachergiving No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it. Ray Bradbury voicenightworld Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies? Ray Bradbury rainlifecountry Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it. Ray Bradbury letting-goinspirationalmoving I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. Ray Bradbury paid-offmaniapaid You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive. Ray Bradbury aliveworld The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain. Ray Bradbury girlrainmoving Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about. Ray Bradbury funtalkingcivilization There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing. Ray Bradbury burninghousebook Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers. Ray Bradbury mysteryanswers
