Top 132 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.