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Ray Bradbury
Geburtstag: 22. August 1920
Todesdatum: 5. Juni 2012
Ray Douglas Bradbury war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Drehbuchautor, zu dessen Schwerpunkten Science-Fiction, Horror und Phantastik zählten. Wikipedia
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„On the whole, the change had done Huxley a share of good. Death made him a handsomer man to deal with. You could talk to him now and he’d have to listen.“
— Ray Bradbury, buch The Golden Apples of the Sun
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl (1948)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
„You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.“
— Ray Bradbury, buch Ray Bradbury
As quoted in "Bradbury Still Believes in Heat of ‘Fahrenheit 451’" http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930312&slug=1689996, interview by Misha Berson, in ', credited to "Ray Bradbury, quoted by Misha Berson in Seattle Times", in "Quotable Quotes", The Reader's Digest, Vol. 144, No. 861, January 1994, p. 25 http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=ZqqUAAAAIAAJ&q=%22people+to+stop+reading%22#search_anchor), or an indirect reference to the re-quoting in Reader's Digest (such as: The Times Book of Quotations (Philip Howard, ed.), 2000, Times Books and HarperCollins, p. 93
Variant: We're not teaching kids to read and write and think. … There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
As quoted in "At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future He Foresaw" http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_peoria.html, interview by Roger Moore, in The Peoria Journal Star (August 2000)
Kontext: The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. … You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
„You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.“
— Ray Bradbury, buch Zen in the Art of Writing
Quelle: Zen in the Art of Writing
„I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.“
— Ray Bradbury, buch Zen in the Art of Writing
Quelle: Zen in the Art of Writing