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“I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.”

Ray Bradbury

“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.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

“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 book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“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.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

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

Ray Bradbury book The Illustrated Man

Source: The Illustrated Man

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

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Variant: There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house.
Source: Fahrenheit 451

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

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Variant: Those who don't build must burn.
Source: Fahrenheit 451

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

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

“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 book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

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

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“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!?”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

“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.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

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

Ray Bradbury

“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.”

Ray Bradbury book The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree

“Good to evil seems evil”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

“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.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

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

Ray Bradbury

BookExpo America, Los Angeles (May 2008). Reported in USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2008-06-01-1819108364_x.htm (June 1, 2008) and The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/03/news.amazon (3 June 2008)