Ray Bradbury

No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.

Ray Bradbury

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed.

Ray Bradbury

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

Ray Bradbury

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Ray Bradbury

Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity.

Ray Bradbury

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

Ray Bradbury

That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

Ray Bradbury

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Ray Bradbury

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

Ray Bradbury

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

Ray Bradbury