1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

I’m not a science-fiction writer. I’ve only written one book that’s science fiction, and that’s Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

I don’t decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I’m not in charge, I’m not in control.

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.

If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.

Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters.

Too much of anything isn’t good for anyone.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That’s immortality. That’s the only immortality I care about.