"The purpose of fiction is not to..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury

“Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.”

“People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.”

“If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.”

“No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.”

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

“Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.”

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”

“Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.”

“Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.”