Ray Bradbury Quotes About Science Fiction

Quotes about: Science Fiction

• Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Fiction, Mankind

• 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

  Space, Individuality, Dinosaurs

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Sep 24, 2015

• Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Talking, Civilization

  Brown Daily Herald, March 24, 1995.

• I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Wrestling, Hysteria

• A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction Stories, World, Moral

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.108, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, Fiction, Fables

• Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Writing, Ideas

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.284, Melville House

• In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Technology, Order

  "Playboy Interview: Ray Bradbury". Interview with Ken Kelley, www.raybradbury.com. May 1996.

• The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Fiction, Happened

  Writer's Symposium By The Sea, Point Loma Nazarene University, cosmolearning.org. April, 2001.

• I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Fiction, Fantasy

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.18, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Needs, Fiction

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

• When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Party, Evening, Young Writers

• Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

• I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: alibi.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

• There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mother, Women, Race

• There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction, Kind, Film

  Source: www.jasonmarchi.com

• I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

  Ray Bradbury

  Labels, Fiction, Fantasy

  Roosevelt Intermediate School, Westfield, NJ #3 Interview, lists.topica.com. March 23, 2005.

• The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Wall, Years

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.126, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Fiction, Impossible

• 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

  Philosophy, Hydrogen Bomb, Ideas

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

  Ray Bradbury

  Growing Up, Fiction, Fields

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

• I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction!

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Real, Law

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Balance, Fiction, Cliffs

  Introduction to "The Circus of Dr. Lao" by Charles G. Finney, 1956.

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