Zitate von Ray Bradbury

„Spring - und lass dir auf dem Weg nach unten Flügel wachsen“

—  Ray Bradbury

„Es war eine kleine Stadt an einem kleinen Fluß und einem kleinen See in einem kleinen Teil eines Staates im mittleren Westen.“

—  Ray Bradbury, buch The Halloween Tree

The Halloween Tree

„Niemand ist jemals gestorben, der eine Familie hatte.“

—  Ray Bradbury

„Bücher sind Ideen aus Fleisch und Blut und schreien lautlos, wenn sie an die Fackel gelegt werden.“

—  Ray Bradbury

„Die Retter Gottes feiern das Leben in der Welt.“

—  Ray Bradbury

„Bibliotheken haben mich großgezogen.“

—  Ray Bradbury

„Drei Dinge sind in Ihrem Kopf: Erstens alles, was Sie vom Tag Ihrer Geburt bis jetzt erlebt haben.“

—  Ray Bradbury

„Man kann die Leute nicht zum Zuhören bringen.“

—  Ray Bradbury

„Es gibt schlimmere Verbrechen als Bücher zu verbrennen. Eines von ihnen ist es, sie nicht zu lesen“

—  Ray Bradbury

„Ich glaube nicht an den anthropomorphen Gott.“

—  Ray Bradbury

„Ich neige dazu zu glauben, dass Sie den Psychiater brauchen.“

—  Ray Bradbury

„Sag mir nicht, wie ich meinen Roman schreiben soll. Sag mir nicht, dass du ein besseres Ende dafür hast. Ich habe keine Zeit dafür.“

—  Ray Bradbury

„Nachdem ich Sie gründlich verwirrt habe, lassen Sie mich innehalten, um Ihren eigenen bestürzten Schrei zu hören.“

—  Ray Bradbury

„You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.“

—  Ray Bradbury, buch Ray Bradbury

As quoted in "Bradbury Still Believes in Heat of ‘Fahrenheit 451’" http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930312&slug=1689996, interview by Misha Berson, in ', credited to "Ray Bradbury, quoted by Misha Berson in Seattle Times", in "Quotable Quotes", The Reader's Digest, Vol. 144, No. 861, January 1994, p. 25 http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=ZqqUAAAAIAAJ&q=%22people+to+stop+reading%22#search_anchor), or an indirect reference to the re-quoting in Reader's Digest (such as: The Times Book of Quotations (Philip Howard, ed.), 2000, Times Books and HarperCollins, p. 93
Variant: We're not teaching kids to read and write and think. … There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
As quoted in "At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future He Foresaw" http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_peoria.html, interview by Roger Moore, in The Peoria Journal Star (August 2000)
Kontext: The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. … You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

„We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.“

—  Ray Bradbury

„You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.“

—  Ray Bradbury, buch Zen in the Art of Writing

Quelle: Zen in the Art of Writing

„I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.“

—  Ray Bradbury, buch Zen in the Art of Writing

Quelle: Zen in the Art of Writing

„Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.“

—  Ray Bradbury, buch Fahrenheit 451

Quelle: Fahrenheit 451

„We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.“

—  Ray Bradbury, buch Zen in the Art of Writing

Variante: We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Quelle: Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) <!-- page 120 of the mass market paperback edition -->
Kontext: From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.