Quotes About Reading Ray Bradbury

#1. Every thought I have is colored by what I learned by what I learned from reading Ray Bradbury.

Joe Hill

#2. Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

#4. Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Ray Bradbury

#5. Fulfil my wishes, Obey my commands.

Truth Devour

#6. Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

#8. IMAGINATION: one of the most powerful tools that humans have to help us visualize our dreams and goals. Imagination is our ability to form mental images and concepts in our brains to foster ideas and turn our goals into reality.

Anonymous

#9. So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

Ray Bradbury

#10. The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." ~Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

#11. It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

Greg Saunier

#12. When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

Ray Bradbury

#13. I rather like the fact that women are so into vampires though. I suppose if it wasn't for Sparkly the neighborhood vampire that would not have been possible.

Cyma Rizwaan Khan

#14. In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

Ray Bradbury

#15. Without an organized space life in general feels unorganized and overwhelming which results in a complete lack of productivity.

Jessie Fuller

#16. I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot!

Rebecca Stead

#17. Libraries raised me.

Ray Bradbury

#18. Svante Arrhenius, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1903), was a declared atheist and the author of The Evolution of the Worlds and other works on cosmic physics.

Gordon Stein

#19. Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

Malcolm Bradbury

#20. I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

Ray Bradbury

#21. Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Ray Bradbury

#22. I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Ray Bradbury

#23. The pirates left the boat in the Thames, next to the Palace of Westminster. They deliberately parked across two disabled spaces, because that kind of behaviour was pretty much the whole point of being a pirate.

Gideon Defoe

#24. I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves
you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Ray Bradbury

#25. ..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

Ray Bradbury

#26. For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.

Neal Asher

#27. A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

Norah Jones

#28. To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.

Ray Bradbury

#29. The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes accused Montage.
"You can't ever have my books," she said.

Ray Bradbury

#30. I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.

Ray Bradbury

#31. To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

Ray Bradbury

#32. When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?

Gloria Gaither

#33. A perfect night... a perfect forever

Mary E. Pearson

#34. I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

William Shatner

#35. It is important to acknowledge all your feelings and not beat yourself up for having them. Your feelings are not good or bad, they just are.

Iyanla Vanzant