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Ray Bradbury on New Year

1920–2012 United States

← All quotes by Ray Bradbury

4 quotes

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it.

Beyond 1984: The People Machines (1979)

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

There is no reason to write pornography when your own sex life is good. Why waste time writing about it?

Playboy interview (1996)

Don't tell me how to write my novel. Don't tell me you've got a better ending for it. I have no time for that.

Playboy interview (1996)

Attribution

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