Bradbury Quotes

• Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

  Don Roff

  Rays, Conversation, Including

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• In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury raised cautions against mass media, especially the television, which dumb down human sensibilities and coerce everybody's thoughts into a single uniform value, allowing human to forget the fundamental action of "having one's opinion". As a result, the society deteriorates. I decided to exhibit [Edward] Kienholz's work which features television as its subject, as well as the Big Double Cross as works that represent this warning.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Media, Dumb, Fundamentals

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.

  William Golding

  Thinking, People, Young Writers

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is not the English spoken in England or in America or even in Canada or Australia or New Zealand. The real English is the English which is a second language, so that it's rather like Latin in the days of the Roman Empire when people had their own languages, but had Latin in order to communicate.

  William Golding

  Real, Latin, Order

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

  Alice Hoffman

  People, Rays, My Favorite

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

  Alice Hoffman

  Character, Men, Faithful

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

  Alice Hoffman

  Growing Up, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

  Jeff Bridges

  Rays, Yeah

  "Jeff Bridges Interview TRON: LEGACY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 2, 2010.

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• I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

  William Shatner

  Reading, Classic, Isaac

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• If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

  Frederik Pohl

  Writing, Trying, Rays

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• The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Writing, Past, Fiction Stories

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• As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and so many others. As a kid Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Kids, Scott Fitzgerald, Rays

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I would guess that Ray Bradbury would be equally resentful of what they did with Illustrated Man, which, you know, took a central idea thesis of his and pissed all over it - made it into one of the worst movies ever made.

  Rod Serling

  Men, Ideas, Rays

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

  Henry Rollins

  Men, Rays, Fiction

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• The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

  Karen Russell

  Kids, Rays, Debt

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Men, People

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play of Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven. And when I cut my teeth on comic books, they were not the easy ones of today like Spiderman, Superman and The Hulk. they were Tales Of The Crypt, The Vaultkeeper, and that sort of thing.

  Stephen King

  Book, Cutting, Play

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed.

  Neil Gaiman

  Rays, Mark, Left

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• I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Math, Men

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• From his style, you’d think Jason Brannon was the dark double of Ray Bradbury. He cares more about character and realism than most writers I’ve read and his plots flow like well-orchestrated music. Indeed, Brannon’s writing has a classical feel, reminiscent of the best traditional work in the genre, even when he’s going for gut-wrenching terror and torture in-extremis.

  Michael Arnzen

  Character, Writing, Dark

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• A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury.

  J. G. Ballard

  Rays, Proust

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• Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

  Greg Bear

  Friendship, Long, Inspire

  "Sci-fi scribes on Ray Bradbury: 'Storyteller, showman and alchemist'" by John Joseph Adams, www.wired.com. June 06, 2012.

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• More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Optimistic, Fiction

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• In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Past, Night, Rays

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