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All Quotes by author - Ray Bradbury

" A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. "

" After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. "

" All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. "

" All of my writing is God-given. "

" All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not. "

" All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. "

" Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. "

" Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience. "

" Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her. "

" Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive. "

" Burroughs is crap. Crap. "

" Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. "

" 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. "

" Electronic books are junk. "

" Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War. "

" Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. "

" Everything is generated through your own will power. "

" Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me. "

" Facts are not interesting to me. "

" First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right. "

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

" I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. "

" Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. "

" I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. "

" I don't believe in colleges and universities. "

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

" I don't do research. I never have. "

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

" I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter. "

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

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