Ray Bradbury

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

I'm not a futurist.

I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

All of my writing is God-given.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.

I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.

If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.