Ray Bradbury Quotes

• Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

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  You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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• If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

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  You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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  If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you will never learn.

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• You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

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• You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

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• Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

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• When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

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• When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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• We’re all dreamers.

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• We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

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• The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

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• The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

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• Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

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• My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

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• My goal is to entertain myself and others.

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• Most of my short stories are fantasy.

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• Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

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• If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

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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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