“If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines and music… you will automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry period in my life because I feed myself well.” Ray Bradbury, who’s written a LOT of books.
Could this somehow possibly miraculously be true?
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absolutely.
What do you stuff yourself with, E?
recently: dan allender, dave eggers, and blogs. trying to read more – it’s that season where everything’s pulling at me at once. hard to knock out time.
Dave Eggers is delicious. He knows how to write a story.
art inspires art. inspiration is inspiring. art, all types that speak to the individual, inspires and challenges the receiver. i think this is very true.
YES.
Yes? YES!
I. Love. Ray. Bradbury.
Talk about a creative mind. He must be right.
I think he is. So, what feeds you, JR?
i’m testing myself here by asking w/o looking it up first.
farenheit 451 was him, right?
good quote. you’re good for that.
hmm… I dunno. I think so. I can’t even tell you where I came across this quote. But it caught me.
YES. and? it’s one of my favorites. used to teach it to sophomores.
yeah that’s the year i read it, i believe. wait, maybe junior year. awesome book. i still go back and re-read the books i read in hs every once in a while. like catcher in the rye. one of my all time favs.
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this made me SING. because it’s true, and now i feel so much less alone for my knowing that he feels it, and you feel it, too.
Indeed! Thanks Rachel.
Keep singing!
I think it is true for some people. We are all inspired by different things. Just because someone consumes a lot of something they won’t automatically become a better producer of what they consume. I think there are plenty of reality/contest shows that prove that point. There is a factor of giftedness that plays into creativity.
You know what, as I re-read the post… I agree more now. Consuming art can will you more creative, it may not make you more skilled, but it would make you more creative. RB’s quote didn’t say “read a lot of books and you will become a better writer,” but that is how I took it at first.
I love this!! Bradbury is my favorite author so it makes it even better.
Yes, I do think it is true. But one does need a healthy diet.
Gluttons shit. A lot.
yeah. But that makes for some GREAT fertilizer.