Commentary. Article 1. Personality.

This article is an interview Time magazine by RACHEL GOLDSTEIN with writer Ray Bradbury. Ray Bradbury turned 90 years old on Aug. 22 2010. He is the author of books including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.

During the interview, Ray Bradbury told that if he existed in the world of Fahrenheit 451 in which books are banned and burned, and a group of people memorize them to carry them on, he would memorize a book of short stories by Edgar Allen Poe. He think that people don’t read as much as they once did, because there are too many computers, too many e-mails, and too many devices around and if we didn't have the computers and the e-mails, we could spend more time reading and writing.

If Ray Bradbury did not become a writer, he would become a preacher. His religion encompasses all religions. He believes in God, he believes in the universe. He believes you are god, he believes he is god. We're all god.

Ray Bradbury doesn’t believe in e-reader, because they don't smell. He considers that a new book smells great and an old book smells even better. A couple years ago some of these book people came to him and they offered him money to put his books on the Internet, and he didn’t agree.

If he could give schoolteachers pointers on how to teach his work, he would tell them to tell the students the secret of his books is love. All of his books are about love.

Ray Bradbury has never had an interest in journalistic writing, because facts are not interesting to him. And he thinks that journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

The writer thinks that we should never have left the moon. We should've stayed there, and built a base. And gone on to Mars. But he wouldn’t travel to the moon commercially if given the chance, because the way to do it is flying with the astronauts.

Bradbury thinks that's the greatest award that he ever got is a medallion, which the French Ambassador gave it to him as a gift from the French people. The medallion makes him a commander in the order of arts and letters.

The writer’s not reading anything right now except Shakespeare. The secret of writing was, to go and live in the library two or four days a week for ten years. He graduated from the library having read every single book in it. And along the way He wrote every day of every week of every month, for every year. And in ten years, he became a writer.

A maxim to him is to "jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down".
All of his life, he has jumped off the cliff and built my wings. It works every single time. It never fails.

I chose this article because I like the creativity of Ray Bradbury and I would like to know a little about himself. I think this is a very good interview. Its easy to read and the author asked really interesting questions.

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