Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.
Ray BradburyI am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
Ray BradburyYou canโt learn to write in college. Itโs a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you doโand they donโt. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you donโt want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, whoโs the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work theyโve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I canโt understand why people read them and why they are taught.
Ray BradburyThe first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
Ray Bradbury