Drawlloween, Brian Luong

2 unusual editions of Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’.

*Originally published under the title "The Naming of Names"

Cover illustration by Louis S. Glanzman

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Your favourite from the winners of the writers polls I've done a little while ago

(I promise that I AM painfully aware of the fact that Shakespeare is overpowered...)

“So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”

— Ray Bradbury, “Zen in the Art of Writing”

If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy, or both.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Ray Bradbury — Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity

Ray Bradbury - Dark Carnival. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948. First British edition. Octavo.

Art by Michael Ayrton.

from The October Game by Ray Bradbury

There I strolled, lost in love, down the corridors, and through the stacks, touching books, pulling volumes out, turning pages, thrusting volumes back, drowning in all the good stuffs that are the essence of libraries. What a place, don’t you agree, to write a novel about burning books in the Future! —Ray Bradbury/Zen in the Art of Writing