Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
He will have plenty of places to choose from. RIP
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
Ray BradburyA conglomerate heap of trash, that’s what I am. But it burns with a high flame.
Ray BradburyMiraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.
Ray BradburyStichwörter: halloween pumpkin candle moundshroud
C'era come un odore di Tempo, Nell'aria della notte. Tomàs sorrise all'idea, continuando a rimuginarla. Era una strana idea. E che odore aveva il Tempo, poi? Odorava di polvere, di orologi e di gente. E che suono aveva il Tempo? Faceva un rumore di acque correnti nei recessi bui d'una grotta, di voci querule, di terra che risuonava con un tonfo cavo sui coperchi delle casse, e battere di pioggia. E, per arrivare alle estreme conseguenze: che aspetto aveva il Tempo? Era come neve che cade senza rumore in una camera buia, o come un film muto in un'antica sala cinematografica, cento miliardi di facce cadenti come palloncini di capodanno, giù, sempre più giù, nel nulla. Così il tempo odorava, questo era il rumore che faceva, era così che appariva. E quella notte – Tomàs immerse una mano nel vento fuori della vettura – quella notte tu quasi lo potevi toccare, il Tempo.
(Cronache Marziane, trad. Giorgio Monicelli)
Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things like Daniel and the lion’s den, and the Tower of Babel. People remember these metaphors because they are so vivid you can’t get free of them and that’s what kids like in school. They read about rocket ships and encounters in space, tales of dinosaurs. All my life I’ve been running through the fields and picking up bright objects. I turn one over and say, Yeah, there’s a story. And that’s what kids like. Today, my stories are in a thousand anthologies. And I’m in good company. The other writers are quite often dead people who wrote in metaphors: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne. All these people wrote for children. They may have pretended not to, but they did.
Ray BradburyStichwörter: art writing literature metaphors
I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.
Ray BradburyStichwörter: prediction future
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
Ray BradburyWrite a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
Ray BradburyStichwörter: writing short-stories
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
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