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.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.