Ray Bradbury Quotes

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

Action is hope. There is no hope without action.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

‘Fahrenheit 451’ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

I don’t have a computer. A computer’s a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‘What are you going to do with it?’

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

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.