Ray Bradbury

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

Ray Bradbury

I’ll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags.

Ray Bradbury

I’m interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

Ray Bradbury

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

Ray Bradbury

If someone sends you a love letter you’ve got to answer back.

Ray Bradbury

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

Ray Bradbury

If you can’t read and write you can’t think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don’t know how to read and write. You’ve got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Ray Bradbury

If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Ray Bradbury