“Si on ne peut avoir la réalité, autant se réfugier dans le rêve.”
Ray Bradbury livre Chroniques martiennes
The Martian Chronicles
Raymond Douglas Bradbury dit Ray Bradbury, né le 22 août 1920 à Waukegan dans l’Illinois et mort le 5 juin 2012 à Los Angeles en Californie, est un écrivain américain, référence du genre de l’anticipation. Il est particulièrement connu pour ses Chroniques martiennes, écrites en 1950, L’Homme illustré, recueil de nouvelles publié en 1951, et surtout Fahrenheit 451, roman dystopique publié en 1953. Wikipedia

“Si on ne peut avoir la réalité, autant se réfugier dans le rêve.”
Ray Bradbury livre Chroniques martiennes
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.”
Ray Bradbury livre Dandelion Wine
Source: Dandelion Wine
“Suddenly the day was gone,
night came out from under each tree and spread.”
Ray Bradbury livre The Halloween Tree
Source: The Halloween Tree
“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course.”
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.”
Ray Bradbury livre Dandelion Wine
Source: Dandelion Wine
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Contexte: I don’t understand writers who have to work at it. I like to play. I’m interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.
Ray Bradbury livre The Golden Apples of the Sun
The Murderer (1953)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
Contexte: Then I went in and shot the televisor, that insidious beast, that Medusa, which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little, but myself always going back, going back hoping and waiting until—bang!
“But no man's a hero to himself.”
Ray Bradbury livre Something Wicked This Way Comes
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury livre The October Country
Source: The October Country
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“I’m being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite.”
Ray Bradbury livre Chroniques martiennes
Usher II (1950)
Source: The Martian Chronicles (1950)
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
Ray Bradbury livre The Halloween Tree
Source: The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury livre Chroniques martiennes
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Something Wicked This Way Comes
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“.. holding a book but reading the empty spaces.”
Ray Bradbury livre Something Wicked This Way Comes
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury livre Chroniques martiennes
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“You're insane!"
"I won't argue that point.”
Ray Bradbury livre Chroniques martiennes
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.”
Ray Bradbury livre Zen in the Art of Writing
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
Ray Bradbury livre Dandelion Wine
Source: Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury livre Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury livre Zen in the Art of Writing
Variante: Write. Don't think. Relax.
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing