Ray Bradbury Quotes

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

There is no frigate like a book

Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.