"You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don't. Th...
Happiness is important. Fun is everything.
More Ray Bradbury quotes
"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
"Without the library, you have no civilization.
"There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and ac...
"I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.
"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
"The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
"There it is."And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptance as all the bits and pieces of his house mixed, ...
"There must be something in books, things we can't imagine.
"Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, ...
"Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heade...
"The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide...
"Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The ma...
"But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us ...
"Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us ...