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Ray Bradbury interviewed by Steve Wasserman
Posted by Paul Raven on July 30th, 2008 at 7:07
Via the ever-vigilant Ed Ashby (and the Forbidden Planet blog) comes news of a video interview with Ray Bradbury on the TruthDig website.
Bradbury has never been short of things to say, and it's good to see that's still true. Here are his thoughts about reading book reviews:
"... as a writer, I’ve always ignored the reviews, because they’re always wrong. And even the right ones are wrong. They love you for the wrong reasons. So you mustn’t read them. So I turned down 200 reviews in the last 40 years, because I knew they couldn’t help me. It’s too late. I’m already me! The book’s out—you can’t change that book by criticizing it. It’s too late! You’re too late for me. If you could help by looking over my shoulder when I’m throwing up, you could teach me to throw up better. But those reviews can’t help me throw up, you see?
There's a full-length transcript available below the four video players, for those who prefer to read instead of watch, but here's the first quarter as a taster:
If that's left you feeling that there aren't enough books by Ray Bradbury sat on your shelves, feel free to remedy the situation by browsing through a selection of his titles in the PS Publishing catalogue!
