US science-fiction writer.
"He is best known for SF stories combining social criticism, e.g., "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles.""
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things."
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
"My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing them down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off."