Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
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August 22, 1920
More Quotes by Ray Bradbury
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.
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