You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn. Ray Bradbury More Quotes by Ray Bradbury More Quotes From Ray Bradbury The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation. Ray Bradbury reputation worry way The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world. Ray Bradbury twenties looks years Evil has only the power we give it. Ray Bradbury evil giving When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good. Ray Bradbury writing long years Fire the doubters out of your life. Ray Bradbury doubters fire From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation? Ray Bradbury dying done people And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over. Ray Bradbury start-the-day cry morning With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century. Ray Bradbury book hands firsts I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. Ray Bradbury wit madness book I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you. Ray Bradbury coward done looks So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous. Ray Bradbury arms would-be hands We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam. Ray Bradbury black flower rain It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe Ray Bradbury alive men night The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. Ray Bradbury lunch rivers people He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game") Ray Bradbury autumn sadness spring I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour. Ray Bradbury flower sun thinking Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff. Ray Bradbury cliffs acting knowing I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what. Ray Bradbury saving-up saving feels We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom. Ray Bradbury rich writing facts We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. 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 missing book
