Ray Bradbury Reading Quotes

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

Ray Bradbury

#2. Libraries raised me.

Ray Bradbury

#3. We have something they want. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. We should be thankful that we know better.

Veronica Roth

#4. The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

James Madison

#5. 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

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

Ray Bradbury

#7. 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

#8. Derek was telling her something about a hand in a box. It was a dead hand. Why the hell did he have to bring it to me right this second? Was it going anywhere?

Gordon Andrews

#9. Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. 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

#11. We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.

John Naisbitt

#12. 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

#13. When you are offended at any man's fault, immediately turn to yourself and reflect in what manner you yourself have erred:

Marcus Aurelius

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

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

#16. 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

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

Ray Bradbury

#18. 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

#19. Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

Laurens Van Der Post

#20. 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

#21. Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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

Joe Hill

#23. I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

Bill Bailey

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

Ray Bradbury

#25. 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

#26. Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.

K.P. Yohannan

#27. 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

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

Ray Bradbury

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Aleksandar Hemon

#32. 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