Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.
Ray BradburyFrom the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.
Ray BradburyThe trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once theyโre done, not to worry about things ahead of time.
Ray Bradbury