Selected Ray Bradbury Quotes
Ray Bradbury- Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He is one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writer who wrote in many genres which includes contemporary, fantasy, horror, mystery, and science fiction.
He is widely known for his novel "Fahrenheit 451" (1953) and his short-story collections "The Martian Chronicles" (1950) and "The Illustrated Man" (1951). Most of his best known work is in speculative fiction, but he has also written coming of age novel "Dandelion Wine" (1957) and the fictionalized memoir "Green Shadows, White Whale" (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including "Moby Dick" and "It Came from Outer Space". Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Additionally, he wrote poetry and published several collections of his poems, such as "They Have Not Seen the Stars" (2001).
Selected Ray Bradbury Quotes:
“I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.”
Ray Bradbury, Life
“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
Ray Bradbury, Life
"You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive."
Ray Bradbury, Life, Goals
“Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.”
Ray Bradbury, Life, Goals
“‘Stuff your eyes with wonder,’ he said, ‘live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.’”
Ray Bradbury, Life, Goals
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
Ray Bradbury, Life, Goals
“I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.”
Ray Bradbury, Goals
“I spent three days a week for ten years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of ten years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”
Ray Bradbury, Intelligence/Wisdom
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Ray Bradbury, Intelligence/Wisdom
“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.”