Iris Blasi

I work in publishing. I like books and the people who read them.

Posts tagged Ray Bradbury

Mar 7

Designer Elizabeth Perez has created a unique copy of Rad Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 that comes with a match and has striking paper along its spine.

via Laughing Squid

Oct 2

“That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you.” Ray Bradbury on reading.

Jun 6

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. … If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.” Ray Bradbury

“My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.” From the introduction of The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury, who passed away today at age 91