{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Philip José Farmer","tags":["fairy-tale","genre","kurt-vonnegut","parable","ray-bradbury","science-fiction"],"id":816,"author_id":"Philip+Jos%C3%A9+Farmer"},{"text":"Without the library, you have no civilization.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["civilization","libraries","ray-bradbury"],"id":28343,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"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. A lot of the people whose work they've taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can't understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don't have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["college","ray-bradbury","writer","writing"],"id":30852,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"Happiness is important. Fun is everything.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["fahrenheit-451","fun","happiness","mgg","ray-bradbury"],"id":122437,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["ray-bradbury","science-fiction"],"id":142136,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"I know, I know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the times I was fort my blunt instrument has been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hid your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["fahrenheit-451","ray-bradbury","science-fiction"],"id":152988,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["conversation","eavesdropping","emily-dickinson","gossip","humor","ray-bradbury","roald-dahl"],"id":201305,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["action","fahrenheit-451","life","life-goes-on","mgg","perserverence","ray-bradbury"],"id":204792,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger readers might like and published them as R Is for Rocket and S Is for Space. Now I was doing the same sort of thing, and I asked Ray if he'd mind if I called this book M Is for Magic. (He didn't.)M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises...","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["magic","ray-bradbury","stories","writing"],"id":220732,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"Sunsets are loved because they vanish.Flowers are loved because they go.The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart.These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["death","ray-bradbury"],"id":227815,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}