Ray Douglas Bradbury

Fiction, Horror and Mystery Fiction writers of the 20th and

21th centuries.

Illinois. He had enjoyable childhood there, about which he later

wrote several autobiographical novels and short stories.
At the age of 12 he decided to become a writer.
Bradbury’s family moved to LA in 1934.

story in a pulp magazine in 1938.
After graduation from high

school, Bradbury entered the college, but didn’t start studying. He went to the local library instead.

“Libraries raised me,” – Ray Bradbury.

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”.

to 600 short stories, and numerous poems, essays and plays.

the Science Fiction Writers of America
National Book Foundation Medal

for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
National Medal of Arts the highest award given to artists and art patrons by the United States government, is bestowed upon Ray Bradbury in 2004 by President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.

Honors and Awards:

Epcot Center, Disney World
Contributed to the conception of

the Orbitron space ride at Euro-Disney, France
Received a special citation by the Pulitzer Prize jury "for his distinguished, prolific, and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy.“
Emmy Award
Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Who Brought Mars to Earth With a Lyrical Mastery, Dies

at 91 on June 5…

science fiction into the literary mainstream…”

uncle. Poe was the batwinged cousin we kept in the

attic. Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers were my brothers. And Mary Shelley was my mother. There you have my ancestry. Adding, of course, the fact that in all probability Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of Frankenstein, was my mother. With a family like that, how else could I have turned out than as I did: a writer of fantasy and most curious tales of science fiction.”

big, beautiful things.”
“When life is good, there is no need

to argue about it”.

прекрасное.

Когда жизнь хороша, спорить о ней незачем.

is not reading them”
“So here, after fifty years, is Fahrenheit

451. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I’m glad that it was done,” - Ray Bradbury.

“Fahrenheit 451”

“Don’t judge a book by its cover”

Just get people to stop reading them.”
“The magic is

only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”

“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy.”

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

чтобы люди перестали их читать.”
“Книги – только одно из вместилищ, где мы

храним то, что боимся забыть. В них нет никакой тайны, никакого волшебства. Волшебство лишь в том, что они говорят, в том, как они сшивают лоскутки вселенной в единое целое.

“У нас есть все, чтобы быть счастливыми, но мы несчастны.”

“Шире раскрой глаза, живи так жадно, как будто через десять секунд умрешь. Старайся увидеть мир. Он прекраснее любой мечты, созданной на фабрике и оплаченной деньгами.”

said, it seems, but they seem almost to be born

that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”

“Dandelion Wine”

Кажется, и причины никакой нет, да они, видно, от роду

такие. Уж очень все к сердцу принимают, и устают быстро, и слезы у них близко, и всякую беду помнят долго, вот и начинают печалиться с самых малых лет. Я-то знаю, я и сам такой.»

“Вино из одуванчиков”

you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know

everything you're still seventeen.”

“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.”

“The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.”

знает все — значит, ему все еще семнадцать.

Как бы ты

ни старалась оставаться прежней, ты все равно будешь только такой, какая ты сейчас, сегодня.

Первое, что узнаешь в жизни, – это что ты дурак. Последнее, что узнаешь, – это что ты все тот же дурак.

in 1959 as “The Day It Rained Forever”.
“When you

have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”

надежда. Надо всегда во что-то верить.