Ray Bradbury Quotes

Through lack of education, we’re not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‘What are you going to do with it?’

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

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