Ray Bradbury: Trending quotes (page 7)

“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”

“Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.”

“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”

“I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.”

“When they give you lined paper, write the other way.”

“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”

“Libraries raised me.”

“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”

“You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.”

“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.”

“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”

“Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”

“A book is a loaded gun.”

“Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.”

“You fail only if you stop writing.”

“No person ever died that had a family.”

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

“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves”

“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”