Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats.

— Ray Bradbury

Yell. Jump. Play. Out-run those sons-of-bitches. They'll never live the way you live. Go do it.

— Ray Bradbury

You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? Furthermore, they may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they've taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can't understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don't have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.

— Ray Bradbury

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? Furthermore, they may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.

— Ray Bradbury

You can't try to do things you simply must do them.

— Ray Bradbury

You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but color and nothing else.

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. Furthermore, you know exhilaration. Furthermore, you can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

— Ray Bradbury

You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! Who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!

— Ray Bradbury

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library every day of your life.

— Ray Bradbury