Top 500 Ray Bradbury Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.”

— Ray Bradbury

152. “Cuando ya no hay nada que perder, se puede correr cualquier riesgo.”

— Ray Bradbury

153. “I’m not a science-fiction writer. I’ve only written one book that’s science fiction, and that’s Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.”

— Ray Bradbury

154. “Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

— Ray Bradbury

155. “Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.”

— Ray Bradbury

156. “If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.”

— Ray Bradbury

157. “I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.”

— Ray Bradbury

158. “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

— Ray Bradbury

159. “Happiness is important. Fun is everything.”

— Ray Bradbury

160. “This is the emotional thing, you see – you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.”

— Ray Bradbury

161. “I’m interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”

— Ray Bradbury

162. “I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.”

— Ray Bradbury

163. “Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.”

— Ray Bradbury

164. “Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.”

— Ray Bradbury

165. “A life’s work should be based on love.”

— Ray Bradbury

166. “In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.”

— Ray Bradbury

167. “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.”

— Ray Bradbury

168. “They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.”

— Ray Bradbury

169. “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

170. “All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It’s my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I’ve won or lost. At sunrise, I’m out again, giving it the old try.”

— Ray Bradbury

171. “The blizzard doesn’t last forever; it just seems so.”

— Ray Bradbury

172. “The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.”

— Ray Bradbury

173. “When they give you lined paper, write the other way.”

— Ray Bradbury

174. “Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars.”

— Ray Bradbury

175. “From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.”

— Ray Bradbury

176. “Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it’s up to you to know with which ear you’ll listen.”

— Ray Bradbury

177. “I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.”

— Ray Bradbury

178. “Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.”

— Ray Bradbury

179. “When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.”

— Ray Bradbury

180. “It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.”

— Ray Bradbury

181. “Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.”

— Ray Bradbury

182. “Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don’t have enough brains to have your good taste.”

— Ray Bradbury

183. “Heaven is a house with porch lights.”

— Ray Bradbury

184. “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

185. “Creativity is a continual surprise.”

— Ray Bradbury

186. “Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, ‘Take me home!’ And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I’ve written every day in the last 75 years. I’ve never stopped writing.”

— Ray Bradbury

187. “A conglomerate heap of trash, that’s what I am. But it burns with a high flame.”

— Ray Bradbury

188. “There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.”

— Ray Bradbury

189. “Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.”

— Ray Bradbury

190. “I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I’ve got what amounts to a religion, now .”

— Ray Bradbury

191. “So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”

— Ray Bradbury

192. “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.”

— Ray Bradbury

193. “You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.”

— Ray Bradbury

194. “The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”

— Ray Bradbury

195. “The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

— Ray Bradbury

196. “Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.”

— Ray Bradbury

197. “I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.”

— Ray Bradbury

198. “My stories are warnings; they’re not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn’t do them. Because then I’d be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.”

— Ray Bradbury

199. “If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don’t.”

— Ray Bradbury

200. “It could reach up and grab the moon.”

— Ray Bradbury