“I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.”
Great
“My business is to prevent the future.”
BusinessAll Quotes by Ray Bradbury
“I spent three days a week for 10 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 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”
Education“I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.”
Work“Touch a scientist and you touch a child.”
Science“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.”
Love“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.”
Imagination“The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.”
Great“My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.”
God“Everything is generated through your own will power.”
Power“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.”
Business“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”
Best“Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.”
Love“I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.”
Future“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.”
Love“You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.”
Work“My business is to prevent the future.”
Business“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”
Morning“When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.”
Money“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.”
Art“If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.”
Dreams