1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

You’d type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root – first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you’ve got the future secured.

A conglomerate heap of trash, that’s what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

There’s no reason to burn books if you don’t read them.

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they! – when you were off to Tanganyika in ’98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.