Ray Bradbury idézet

Ray Douglas Bradbury amerikai író, a science fiction irodalom egyik óriása. Jelentősége nem csak művei minőségében nyilvánult meg, hanem abban is, hogy a sci-fi műfaj jelentős időszakában, az 1950-es években már aktív író volt, így a műfajra írásai hatást gyakoroltak ebben a fontos korszakban. Bradbury művei számos kortárs és későbbi írót inspiráltak, a műfaj egyik „nagyjának” tartották. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. augusztus 1920 – 5. június 2012
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“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”

Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451

Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Változat: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Forrás: Fahrenheit 451

“Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.”

Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451

Forrás: Fahrenheit 451

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

Ray Bradbury könyv Ray Bradbury

As quoted in "Bradbury Still Believes in Heat of ‘Fahrenheit 451’" http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930312&slug=1689996, interview by Misha Berson, in ', credited to "Ray Bradbury, quoted by Misha Berson in Seattle Times", in "Quotable Quotes", The Reader's Digest, Vol. 144, No. 861, January 1994, p. 25 http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=ZqqUAAAAIAAJ&q=%22people+to+stop+reading%22#search_anchor), or an indirect reference to the re-quoting in Reader's Digest (such as: The Times Book of Quotations (Philip Howard, ed.), 2000, Times Books and HarperCollins, p. 93
Variant: We're not teaching kids to read and write and think. … There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
As quoted in "At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future He Foresaw" http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_peoria.html, interview by Roger Moore, in The Peoria Journal Star (August 2000)
Kontextus: The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. … You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.”

Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451

Forrás: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

“Three things are in your head: First, everything you have experienced from the day of your birth until right now.”

The Paris Review interview (2010)
Kontextus: Three things are in your head: First, everything you have experienced from the day of your birth until right now. Every single second, every single hour, every single day. Then, how you reacted to those events in the minute of their happening, whether they were disastrous or joyful. Those are two things you have in your mind to give you material. Then, separate from the living experiences are all the art experiences you’ve had, the things you’ve learned from other writers, artists, poets, film directors, and composers. So all of this is in your mind as a fabulous mulch and you have to bring it out. How do you do that? I did it by making lists of nouns and then asking, What does each noun mean? You can go and make up your own list right now and it would be different than mine. The night. The crickets. The train whistle. The basement. The attic. The tennis shoes. The fireworks. All these things are very personal. Then, when you get the list down, you begin to word-associate around it. You ask, Why did I put this word down? What does it mean to me? Why did I put this noun down and not some other word? Do this and you’re on your way to being a good writer. You can’t write for other people. You can’t write for the left or the right, this religion or that religion, or this belief or that belief. You have to write the way you see things.

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

Ray Bradbury könyv Zen in the Art of Writing

Forrás: Zen in the Art of Writing

“We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”

Ray Bradbury könyv Zen in the Art of Writing

Változat: We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Forrás: Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) <!-- page 120 of the mass market paperback edition -->
Kontextus: From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”

Ray Bradbury könyv Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Coda (1979)
Kontextus: There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”

Ray Bradbury könyv The Golden Apples of the Sun

The Meadow (1947), originally a radio play for the World Security Workshop; later revised into a short story for this anthology.
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)

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