Ray Bradbury Quotes

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Books may well be the only true magic.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.