Ray Bradbury

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

Ray Bradbury

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

Ray Bradbury

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

Ray Bradbury

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Ray Bradbury

I care so much I’m sick.

Ray Bradbury

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Ray Bradbury

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Ray Bradbury

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.

Ray Bradbury

I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.

Ray Bradbury

I don’t do research. I never have.

Ray Bradbury