1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

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

So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.

All education is self-discovery.

This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?

A day without writing was a little death.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.