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
friendship inspiring potters
God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
shadow rooms poverty
Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.
reading boys roots
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.
race people insane
The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.
dream technology order
In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.
answers mystery
Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.
world
Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
hilarious flames trash
A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.
library literature film
You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
important important-things
The important thing is to be in love with something.
ignorance people world
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
wings fiction way
The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.
nature adventure filled-up
He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.
soul lost found
But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.