1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her.

Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.