Ray Bradbury Quotes

• I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we’ve dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

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• The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

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• We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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• Libraries raised me.

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• Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!

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• It’s important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it’s perfume, it’s incense, it’s the dust of Egypt…

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• Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

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• There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

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

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• The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

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• We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.

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• We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

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• It doesn’t matter what you do…so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away.

  Ray Bradbury

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• Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

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• It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

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• Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

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• Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

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• Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

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• 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.

  Ray Bradbury

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  Tags in Think, Things, Creativity

• The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

  Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury (114)

Birth:	22nd August, 1920
Death:	5th June, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers. Many of Bradbury's works have been adapted into television shows or films.

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