1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Do you remember what happened to Mexico when Cortez and his very fine good friends arrived from Spain? A whole civilization destroyed by greedy, righteous bigots. History will never forgive Cortez.

If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don’t need to read it. They are the future.

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You’ve got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Through lack of education, we’re not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.

I believe in creative failing – to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you’ve got a thousand poems behind you and you’re relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

We have our Arts so we won’t die of Truth.

The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we’ve stashed away. But there are times when we’re all autumn people.