Ray Bradbury Fiction Quotations

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

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

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.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.