Top 500 Ray Bradbury Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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2. “Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.”

— Ray Bradbury

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3. “You fail only if you stop writing.”

— Ray Bradbury

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4. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

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6. “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

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7. “Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”

— Ray Bradbury

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8. “Don’t talk about it; write.”

— Ray Bradbury

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9. “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

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10. “Life is about trying things to see if they work.”

— Ray Bradbury

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11. “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”

— Ray Bradbury

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12. “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

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13. “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

— Ray Bradbury

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14. “Action is hope. There is no hope without action.”

— Ray Bradbury

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15. “You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.”

— Ray Bradbury

16. “Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.”

— Ray Bradbury

17. “Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”

— Ray Bradbury

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18. “Write. Don’t think. Relax.”

— Ray Bradbury

19. “Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.”

— Ray Bradbury

20. “Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.”

— Ray Bradbury

21. “I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.”

— Ray Bradbury

22. “If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

— Ray Bradbury

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23. “I don’t know anything anymore.”

— Ray Bradbury

24. “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

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25. “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.”

— Ray Bradbury

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26. “If you write a hundred short stories and they’re all bad, that doesn’t mean you’ve failed. You fail only if you stop writing.”

— Ray Bradbury

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27. “Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”

— Ray Bradbury

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28. “You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”

— Ray Bradbury

29. “Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”

— Ray Bradbury

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30. “Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.”

— Ray Bradbury

31. “Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.”

— Ray Bradbury

32. “There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”

— Ray Bradbury

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33. “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

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34. “Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.”

— Ray Bradbury

35. “Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.”

— Ray Bradbury

36. “Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.”

— Ray Bradbury

37. “Libraries are the center of our lives. There’s no use going to a university if you don’t live at the library.”

— Ray Bradbury

38. “Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.”

— Ray Bradbury

39. “Write 1000 words a day. That’s only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That’s what writing’s all about.”

— Ray Bradbury

40. “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

41. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

— Ray Bradbury

42. “Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.”

— Ray Bradbury

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43. “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

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

— Ray Bradbury

45. “I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.”

— Ray Bradbury

46. “And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.”

— Ray Bradbury

47. “First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.”

— Ray Bradbury

48. “A book is a loaded gun.”

— Ray Bradbury

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49. “Beware the autumn people.”

— Ray Bradbury

50. “The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It’s the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.”

— Ray Bradbury