I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.