Legendary science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury was born in 1920. Through the years, LC has been the lucky recipient of several letters written to LC readers by the science-fiction master. In the Utter below, Bradbury offers some surprising advice guiding would-be writers along the path to creativity. To the readers of Literary Cavalcade: 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 snuff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish for you a wresting match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with the hysteria, and out of it make fine stories. 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 PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): RAY BRADBURY ~~~~~~~~ By Ray Bradbury |
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