A Conversation with Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury, Author

"My influence is Edgar Rice Burroughs"

"I fell completely in love with the planet Mars, the way he wrote about it"

"I couldn't afford to buy the Burroughs books so I wrote on the sequel myself and I wrote about the planet mars and when I was 12 years old, Mars took me home and I've never come back."

"What I think I can teach people is that a library is more important than a college or a university."

"I grew up in a poor family, I could never make it to college, Thank God for that. But I had enough sense when I was 18 years old, to start going to the library five or six nights a week. Every morning I wrote. Every afternoon I sold newspapers on the street corner and I graduated from the library when I was 28 years old."

"I taught myself about ME going to the library...you don't get that in Colleges or Universities. If you burn books, you burn everything in a society."

"I'm so proud to be published in Egypt. I'm so proud to be a part of the library there because 5,000 years ago, it was the first library that was burned. The network of information you can g et on your computer is not the quite the same as the kind of information you get in a library. If I had my way, I would burn the computers and not the libraries."

"Let me give you advice to all writers, at all times, everywhere...I have a simple to rule to give to you: Do what you love and love what you do...Do what you love and love what you do..."

"I'm sending you all my love, I put my arms around you with my love, and I thank you for your attention."

"God Bless you and keep you."