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Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 5

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You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!

You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!

Yesterday, Who Cares, Tonight

Ray Bradbury (2013). “A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories”, p.7, Harper Collins

The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

Writing, Forever, Lasts

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Book, Reading, Past

Speech by Minister Pallo Jordan on launch of the South African Library Week at the Bessie Head Public Library, Msunduzi Minicipality, Pietermaritzburg, www.dac.gov.za. March 14, 2009.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Art, Needs, Breathe

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

Book, Fool, Ass

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

Running, Rules To Live By, Three

"Ray Bradbury on Sci-Fi, God and Robots: The Late Author's Biggest Ideas" by Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. June 6, 2012.

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Love, Romantic, World

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.

Thinking Of You, Creativity, Self

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

Book, Gun, Men

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Science, Impossible, Universe

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

Inspirational, Travel, Romance

Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.134, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.

Nice, Book, Smell

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

School, Intellectual, Swimmer

Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?

Reading, Writing, Cutting

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Believe, School, College

"A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library" by Jennifer Steinhauer, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2009.

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

Memories, Fire, Needs

Ray Bradbury (2013). “A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories”, p.17, Harper Collins

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

Falling In Love, Book, Fall

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

Inspirational, Writing, Reality

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

Hero, Writing, Want

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

Teacher, Inspire, Librarian

People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.

Girl, Sex, Book

"Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

Stories, World, Type

"Is Your Psycho Killer Just...Psycho?" by Dennis Palumbo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2012.

Fire the doubters out of your life.

Fire, Doubters

What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.

Writing, Effort, Bird

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

Needs, Bothered, Not Bothered

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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