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Ray Bradbury on Books

1920–2012 United States

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11 quotes

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading.

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

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

Cardiff read these words: HOPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY. And in small letters beneath that: KNOW HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE.

Now and Forever (2007)

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course."

Don’t mind me, Miss Adams. You ever smell new books? Binding, pages, print. Like fresh bread when you’re hungry.

Exchange (1996)

What traitors books can be! You think they’re backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ray Bradbury (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.