Ray Bradbury: Trending quotes (page 13)

“Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.”

“I'd like to know what a place iswhen I'm. I'd like to be.”

“There must me something in books, things we can't imagine.”

“Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.”

“I think the sun is a flower,
That blooms for just one hour.”

“It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.”

“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.”

“Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?”

“When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?”

“Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.”

“Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.”

“Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.”

“Good to evil seems evil”

“He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.”

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

“It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.”