Ray Bradbury

“The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading.”

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

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

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“Life is trying things to see if they work.”

“Love what you do and do what you love.”

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”

“Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.”

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”

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

“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical.”

“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice.”

“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.”

“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

“I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.”

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”

“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”

“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.”

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”