Ray Bradbury
Born: 08-21-1920
Ray Bradbury was an influential American author renowned for his imaginative and thought-provoking works in science fiction and fantasy. Born in 1920, he captivated readers with masterpieces like "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles," exploring themes of censorship and human connection. Bradbury's storytelling prowess earned him numerous awards and a lasting legacy in literature, inspiring generations with his vivid imagination and profound insights into society and human nature.
Book summaries for books written by Ray Bradbury
Quotes
Every night is Halloween night, if you do it right.
The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward.
Death is the only thing that ever frightened me.
There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
Where do you take a boy who's scared of everything? To the darkest place in the world, of course.
A man who has lived fifty years without breathing a breath of anger or hate or bitterness, and who has walked with patience and sweetness and gentleness, and who has seen the truth, is a man without a price. Such a man is priceless.
It's a good night for mysteries and bewitchments.
They all turned to the age-old question: 'What is Halloween?'.
He felt his body crackling as if charged with electricity. His skin prickled, his hair stood on end, and he was ready to leap through the window and run out into the autumn night, shrieking like a madman.
So long as you don't die, life is always going to have more things in it.
One day out of the whole year is devoted to remembering the dead. The other 364 are for remembering the living.
Every town has its ghost story, every house its haunted place.