1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Every story I’ve written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that’s too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can’t think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don’t build a story; you allow it to explode.

Evil has only the power that we give it. I give you nothing. I take back. Starve. Starve. Starve.

How’s Uncle Louis today?” “Who?” “And Aunt Maude?

Can’t you recognize the human in the inhuman?