"I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy."

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Ray Bradbury

#Book Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Fantasy Quotes

“The person who looks at a photograph as a complete picture, unable to say anything about anything except the facts which existed at the moment of exposure, does not see very far.”
“In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.”
“I am in control. What athlete you know doesn't call the shots? I have the final say.”
“For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.”
“A good writer is always a people watcher.”
“Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.”
“A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.”

Source : Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum
“Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.”

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