Top 500 Ray Bradbury Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters.”

— Ray Bradbury

252. “Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”

— Ray Bradbury

253. “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

254. “Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.”

— Ray Bradbury

255. “Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.”

— Ray Bradbury

256. “It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the “parlour families” today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios and televisors, but are not.”

— Ray Bradbury

257. “He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”

— Ray Bradbury

258. “The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow.”

— Ray Bradbury

259. “We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe.”

— Ray Bradbury

260. “There is only one type of story in the world-your story.”

— Ray Bradbury

261. “It’s always someone else’s husband dies, they say.”

— Ray Bradbury

262. “The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.”

— Ray Bradbury

263. “We have our Arts so we won’t die of Truth.”

— Ray Bradbury

264. “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.”

— Ray Bradbury

265. “I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn’t forget, I’m alive, I know I’m alive, I mustn’t forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”

— Ray Bradbury

266. “I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.”

— Ray Bradbury

267. “Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.”

— Ray Bradbury

268. “You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.”

— Ray Bradbury

269. “I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile.”

— Ray Bradbury

270. “At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!”

— Ray Bradbury

271. “We’ve let too much time go by. We’ve been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that’s what space travel is all about. It’s all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.”

— Ray Bradbury

272. “This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.”

— Ray Bradbury

273. “Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror’s Maze, as if parts of someone’s life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.”

— Ray Bradbury

274. “I’m being ironic. Don’t interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite. There!”

— Ray Bradbury

275. “Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.”

— Ray Bradbury

276. “Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words.”

— Ray Bradbury

277. “When I graduated from high school I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.”

— Ray Bradbury

278. “Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.”

— Ray Bradbury

279. “Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.”

— Ray Bradbury

280. “If you’re reluctant to weep, you won’t live a full and complete life.”

— Ray Bradbury

281. “Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!”

— Ray Bradbury

282. “You’d type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.”

— Ray Bradbury

283. “When you write – explode – fly apart – disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.”

— Ray Bradbury

284. “It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.”

— Ray Bradbury

285. “The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.”

— Ray Bradbury

286. “There was a damn silly bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man.”

— Ray Bradbury

287. “I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college.”

— Ray Bradbury

288. “The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.”

— Ray Bradbury

289. “Good to evil seems evil.”

— Ray Bradbury

290. “So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.”

— Ray Bradbury

291. “By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”

— Ray Bradbury

292. “Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.”

— Ray Bradbury

293. “The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.”

— Ray Bradbury

294. “Without the library, you have no civilization.”

— Ray Bradbury

295. “My goal is to entertain myself and others.”

— Ray Bradbury

296. “There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You’ve got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.”

— Ray Bradbury

297. “There’s no reason to burn books if you don’t read them.”

— Ray Bradbury

298. “Happy! Of all the nonsense.”

— Ray Bradbury

299. “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.”

— Ray Bradbury

300. “Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.”

— Ray Bradbury