Writer

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Ada kejahatan yang lebih buruk daripada membakar buku. Salah satunya adalah tidak membacanya.

Libraries raised me.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Anda tidak dapat mencoba melakukan sesuatu; Anda harus melakukannya.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Facts are not interesting to me.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

All of my writing is God-given.

I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

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.