Ray Bradbury Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Past

  Speech by Minister Pallo Jordan on launch of the South African Library Week at the Bessie Head Public Library, Msunduzi Minicipality, Pietermaritzburg, www.dac.gov.za. March 14, 2009.

• This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Writing, Cutting

• Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Remember, Fireman

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.42, Hamilton Books

• When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Writing, School

• 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.

  Ray Bradbury

  Country, Book, Fall

  "Bradbury Still Believes In Heat Of `Fahrenheit 451'" by Misha Berson, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. March 12, 1993.

• Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?

  Ray Bradbury

  Team, Reading, Home

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

• In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Color

• Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Ignorance

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

• Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Knowledge, Civilization

• Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.

  Ray Bradbury

  Death, Lying, Reading

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

• So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Smell

• ..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Space

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

• Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.

  Ray Bradbury

  Song, Book, Reading

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

• I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Funny Things

• I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

  Ray Bradbury

  Girl, Reading, Home

  "From the archive: Ray Bradbury on life, love and Buck Rogers". Interview with John Ezard, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2012.

• Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Teaching, Reading

• My parents read the comics to me, and I fell in love with comic strips. I've collected them all of my life. I have a complete collection of all the "Buck Rogers" Sunday funnies and daily paper strips, I have all of "Prince Valiant" put away, all of "Tarzan," which appeared in the Sunday funnies in 1932 right on up through high school. So I've learned a lot from reading comics as a child.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Reading, School

  "I Graduated from the Library: An Interview with Ray Bradbury". Interview with Brendan Dowling, publiclibrariesonline.org. November/December 2002.

• Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Writing, Worth Reading

  "I Graduated from the Library: An Interview with Ray Bradbury". Interview with Brendan Dowling, publiclibrariesonline.org. November/December 2002.

• As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Reading, Commitment

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

• To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Boys, Roots

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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