Ray Bradbury Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

• You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Crazy, Book, Writing

• I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, School, College

  "A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library" by Jennifer Steinhauer, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2009.

• There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

  Ray Bradbury

  School, Library, Use

• Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Past

  Speech by Minister Pallo Jordan on launch of the South African Library Week at the Bessie Head Public Library, Msunduzi Minicipality, Pietermaritzburg, www.dac.gov.za. March 14, 2009.

• I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Education, Book, College

• [His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Dark, Library

• When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Fire, Sky

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

• I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Writing, Sleep

• I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, School, Boys

  "Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews". Book by Sam Weller, 2010.

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Library, Find Me

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.275, Melville House

• I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

  Ray Bradbury

  Education, College, Years

• Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

  Ray Bradbury

  College, Eight, Age

• Without the library, you have no civilization.

  Ray Bradbury

  Civilization, Library

• When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Writing, School

• Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Being Single

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Feb 14, 2017

• Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Knowledge, Civilization

• Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.

  Ray Bradbury

  Death, Lying, Reading

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

• It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Writing, Library

• But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Circles, Library

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.293, Melville House

• No use going to class unless you go to the library.

  Ray Bradbury

  Class, Library, Use

• The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

  Ray Bradbury

  Library, World, Want

• What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Library

• You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

  Ray Bradbury

  College, Everyday, Library

• ... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

  Ray Bradbury

  Library

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

• Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

  Ray Bradbury

  Boys, Thinking, Giving

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