Ray Bradbury Quotes to Inspire and Revive You

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

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

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Libraries raised me.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Facts are not interesting to me.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

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.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

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

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