1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.

I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.

You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.