Top 500 Ray Bradbury Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

303. “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

304. “Good to evil seems evil.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

309. “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

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310. “Ignorance is fatal, M. Garrett.”

— Ray Bradbury

311. “Happy! Of all the nonsense.”

— Ray Bradbury

312. “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

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

— Ray Bradbury

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314. “You laugh when I haven’t been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I’ve asked you.”

— Ray Bradbury

315. “The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It’s problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ray Bradbury

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317. “I want your loves to be multiple. I don’t want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.”

— Ray Bradbury

318. “There is more than one way to burn a book.”

— Ray Bradbury

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319. “So many people are. Afraid of firemen, I mean. But you’re just a man, after all...”

— Ray Bradbury

320. “When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It’s the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It’s the total field.”

— Ray Bradbury

321. “A day without writing was a little death.”

— Ray Bradbury

322. “How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.”

— Ray Bradbury

323. “I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.”

— Ray Bradbury

324. “Fire the doubters out of your life.”

— Ray Bradbury

325. “But no man’s a hero to himself.”

— Ray Bradbury

326. “And a last thought from Tom: O Mr. Moundshroud, will we EVER stop being afraid of nights and death? And the thought returned: When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”

— Ray Bradbury

327. “Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.”

— Ray Bradbury

328. “To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.”

— Ray Bradbury

329. “Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.”

— Ray Bradbury

330. “You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.”

— Ray Bradbury

331. “When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life – that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don’t listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.”

— Ray Bradbury

332. “It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed. Summer gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this indeed was the first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer.”

— Ray Bradbury

333. “They quit trying too hard to destroy everything, to humble everything. They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. They never let science crush the aesthetic and the beautiful.”

— Ray Bradbury

334. “I believe in Darwin and God together.”

— Ray Bradbury

335. “Create a character with an obsession, then follow.”

— Ray Bradbury

336. “You’re afraid of making mistakes. Don’t be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks.”

— Ray Bradbury

337. “He had written a short story once called “The Pedestrian,” about a man who is incarcerated by the police after he is stopped simply for walking.”

— Ray Bradbury

338. “Sometimes I am stunned at my capacity as a nine-year-old, to understand my entrapment and escape it... Where did I find the courage to rebel, to change my life, live alone? I don’t want to over-estimate all this, but damn it, I love that nine-year-old, whoever in hell he was.”

— Ray Bradbury

339. “I hate a Roman named Status Quo.”

— Ray Bradbury

340. “Raw, gentle, and easy, it mizzled out of the high air, a special elixir, tasting of spells and stars and air, carrying a peppery dust in it, and moving like a rare light sherry on his tongue. Rain.”

— Ray Bradbury

341. “The entire history of mankind is problem solving, or science fiction swallowing ideas, digesting them, and excreting formulas for survival. You can’t have one without the other. No fantasy, no reality. No studies concerning loss, no gain. No imagination, no will. No impossible dreams: No possible solutions.”

— Ray Bradbury

342. “Don’t let them take your crying, turn it upside down and use it for their own smile! I’ll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.”

— Ray Bradbury

343. “The wind whistled, was cool: it was an early autumn evening, no longer a late summer one.”

— Ray Bradbury

344. “And we lived in a world that was evil. A world that was like a great black ship pulling away from the shore of sanity and civilization, roaring its black horn in the night, taking two billion people with it, whether they wanted to go or not, to death, to fall over the edge of the earth and the sea into radioactive flame and madness.”

— Ray Bradbury

345. “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. For writing allows just the proper recipes of truth, life, reality as you are able to eat, drink, and digest without hyperventilating and.”

— Ray Bradbury

346. “You don’t stay for nothing.”

— Ray Bradbury

347. “Quantity gives experience. From experience alone can quality come.”

— Ray Bradbury

348. “Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”

— Ray Bradbury

349. “How many times can a man go down and still be alive?”

— Ray Bradbury

350. “Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.”

— Ray Bradbury