Explore Quotes by Ray Bradbury

The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.

He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

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.

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

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

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.