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“His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.”

Ray Bradbury Farewell Summer

Source: Farewell Summer

“Are you happy?”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

“Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..”

Ray Bradbury

“Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.”

Ray Bradbury

“What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”

Ray Bradbury

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity

“The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

“I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why…. Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?”

Ray Bradbury