Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradburywas an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 August 1920
CityLos Angeles, IL
CountryUnited States of America
years people mars
Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.
writing light white
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
space forever want
Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.
girl sex book
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.
destiny land community
We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.
writing acceptance rejection
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
daughter grandchildren eight
I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.
hero writing want
First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.
sorry book thinking
(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.
hands answers mystery
Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."
writing culture treasure
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
whispering shouting worst
What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
brain intellectual needs
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
running fun ideas
I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.