L.J. Writes

Via Longform.org I found this Ray Bradbury interview on the Paris Review. The interview started in the late seventies and was revived sometime during the mid-to-late oughts after the death of the original interviewer. (If you know a little about the Paris Review's history with the CIA, it makes you wonder if editor George Plimpton nixed the interview because he found Bradbury of insufficient propaganda value. I'm pretty sure Mr. Bradbury would have found that flattering.)

I am a quote hoarder and I found this interview to be chock full of quotable lines. It was also a pain to copy and paste all that over to Evernote and I wanted to share these gems with my LJ friends. So the following are excerpts from the words of this late great soul. I don't agree with everything he says but he makes me think, and that is more important than agreement.

( If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I'd have killed myself. )