Check out the most famous Ray Bradbury quotes that reflect his passion for creativity and his insightful commentary on society, technology, censorship, and the future.
Ray Douglas Bradbury was a prolific American author and screenwriter, best known for his imaginative and poetic storytelling.
He was celebrated for working on multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. His novels and short stories often blend nostalgia for childhood with social criticism and a keen awareness of the potential hazards of technology.
Few of his notable books include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Zen In The Art Writing, The October Country, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Bradbury’s influence extends beyond literature, many of his works have been adapted into television, films, and comic books.
He was also a poet, and he published several collections of poems, such as “They Have Not Seen the Stars.”
Throughout his illustrious career, Bradbury received many awards including an awards American Academy of Arts and Letters, Emmy Award, National Medal of Arts, and a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize jury.
The New York Times called him as the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream”.
Here are some of the most meaningful quotes by Ray Bradbury that capture the essence of his creativity and imagination.
Top 10 Ray Bradbury Quotes
- “You fail only if you stop writing.” — Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury Quotes - “Life is trying things to see if they work.” — Ray Bradbury
Best Ray Bradbury Quotes - “I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.” — Ray Bradbury
Quotes Of Ray Bradbury - “It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.” — Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury Quotations - “If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.” — Ray Bradbury
Quotes From Ray Bradbury - “I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.” — Ray Bradbury
One Meaningful Quote From Ray Bradbury - “You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.” — Ray Bradbury
- “Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.” — Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury Famous Quotes - “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” — Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury Sayings - “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.” — Ray Bradbury
Best Ray Bradbury Quotes About Love And Life
- “We’re all dreamers.” — Ray Bradbury
- “The Internet is a big distraction.” — Ray Bradbury
- “Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.” — Ray Bradbury
- “I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.” — Ray Bradbury
- “Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.” — Ray Bradbury
- “At the end of your life, if you don’t come to that end and look back and realize that you did not celebrate, then you wasted it.” — Ray Bradbury
- “I finally figured out that if you are going lo step on a live mine, make it your own. Be blown up as it were, by your delights and despairs.” — Ray Bradbury
- “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You “can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” — Ray Bradbury
- “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.” — Ray Bradbury
- “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.” — Ray Bradbury
- “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.” — Ray Bradbury
Inspirational Ray Bradbury Quotes On Writing And Education
- “Touch a scientist and you touch a child.” — Ray Bradbury
- “I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.” — Ray Bradbury
- “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” — Ray Bradbury
- “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” — Ray Bradbury
- “Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” — Ray Bradbury
- “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury
- “[I]f you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer.” — Ray Bradbury
- “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” — Ray Bradbury
- “A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.” — Ray Bradbury
- “I became a writer to escape the despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I create with my imagination.” — Ray Bradbury
- “Don’t ever be a Rocket Man.” I stopped. “I mean it,” he said. “Because when you’re out there you want to be here, and when you’re here you want to be out there. Don’t start that.” — Ray Bradbury
Famous Quotes From Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
- “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” — Ray Bradbury
- “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “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.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
- “Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.” — Ray Bradbury
- “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” — Ray Bradbury
- “I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.” — Ray Bradbury
- “I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.” — Ray Bradbury
- “The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’” — Ray Bradbury
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