"To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.












..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

More Ray Bradbury quotes
"A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
"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 c...
"INTERVIEWERYou’re self-educated, aren’t you?BRADBURYYes, I am. I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library...
"Libraries raised me.
"I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put ...
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
"You should've thought of that before becoming a fir
"Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
"It was pretty silly quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give man a few lines of verse and he thinks he...
"The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just g...
"But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us ...
"I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused the...
"Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three...
"Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book...