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

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" We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. "

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

" 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. "

" The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars. "

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

" My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. "

" We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. "

" The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. "

" It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. "

" Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. "

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

" I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?' "

" You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you. "

" I'm not a futurist. "

" I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work. "

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

" We've got to dumb America up again. "

" My goal is to entertain myself and others. "

" When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. "

" When you're older you want to learn from other people. "

" You fail only if you stop writing. "

" If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it. "

" 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. "

" We're all dreamers. "

" 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. "

" I have fun with ideas; I play with them. "

" I write screenplays in the middle of the night. "

" Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love. "