1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

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.

Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

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.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.