The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.
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RAY BRADBURY I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ...
RAY BRADBURY When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the...
RAY BRADBURY There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ...
RAY BRADBURY Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà...
RAY BRADBURY Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr...
RAY BRADBURY Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
RAY BRADBURY First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
RAY BRADBURY I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
RAY BRADBURY Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
RAY BRADBURY A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i...
RAY BRADBURY And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I...
RAY BRADBURY I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...
RAY BRADBURY If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ...
RAY BRADBURY One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...
RAY BRADBURY Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,...
RAY BRADBURY We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v...
RAY BRADBURY I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
RAY BRADBURY That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi...
RAY BRADBURY The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
RAY BRADBURY There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go...
RAY BRADBURY Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha...
RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
RAY BRADBURY The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on...
RAY BRADBURY If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne...
RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
RAY BRADBURY Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
RAY BRADBURY Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
RAY BRADBURY You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
RAY BRADBURY You fail only if you stop writing
RAY BRADBURY Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious...
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