Most of us, at some point or another, question whether we should be writing at all. I’m on my feet, running in circles, and yelling for a clean pair of spats.” What Makes a Writer? Four and I might as well be a hog, suffering the flux in a wallow. I have learned, on my journeys, that if I let a day go by without writing, I grow uneasy. For writing allows just the proper recipes of truth, life, reality as you are able to eat, drink, and digest without hyperventilating and flopping like a dead fish in your bed. “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. As such writing can be used as a form of tonic for decay. Any art, any good work, of course, is that…”Īccording to Bradbury, you must creatively oppose the entropy of life. “So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.” After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”Īnd his motivations for writing? Enjoyment aside, writing for Bradbury was an antidote to life… “Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. His exuberance not only his craft, but for life in general, shines through, “To work creatively, an artist in any field must put flesh into it, and enjoy it as a lark, or a fascinating adventure.”
While the literary community often views crafting stories as a tortured process, with a writer releasing his inner demons onto the page, Bradbury viewed it differently… “I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion.” And between the decision and the reality lay eight years of junior high school, high school, and selling newspapers on a street corner in Los Angeles, while I wrote three million words.”īradbury’s writing journey from selling newspapers on a street corner, to creating Farenheit 451, a cherished novel to this day, has always been about enjoyment, My second decision was at twelve when I got a toy typewriter for Christmas. “My first decision about a career was at eleven, to be a magician and travel the world with my illusions… Zen in the Art of Writing is a collection of essays that introduces Bradbury’s thoughts on writing and contains sage advice for the aspiring creative. In 1951 Ray Bradbury spent nine dollars and eighty cents in dimes to complete the first draft of a new novel.ĭriven by his children wanting to play when he was supposed to be writing, Bradbury wrote it at a furious pace in the University of California library, paying for the use of a typewriter by the half hour.
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