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“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”

— The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket

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I insist, she talks to me at the right moment

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“And all I can do is read a book to stay awake, And it rips my life away but it’s a great escape.”

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Reading advice from Ray Bradbury in the May 1971 Wilson Library Bulletin (via)

austinkleon:

Reading advice from Ray Bradbury in the May 1971 Wilson Library Bulletin (via)

I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college….You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.

Ray Bradbury, from an interview with The Paris Review (via) (via austinkleon)

How to steal like Ray Bradbury: “I took the print off with my eyeballs and stayed honest.” →

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“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college.”

While digging for a 1971 Ray Bradbury essay called “How, Instead of Being Educated in College, I Was Graduated From Libraries,” I came across this Paris Review interview again.

Loved this bit about him stealing magazines:

I used to steal magazines from a store on Genesee Street, in Waukegan, and read them and then steal them back on the racks again. That way I took the print off with my eyeballs and stayed honest. I didn’t want to be a permanent thief, and I was very careful to wash my hands before I read them.

Bradbury claimed that the library was way more fun than school “because you make up your own [reading] list and you don’t have to listen to anyone.”

He considered the library a self-invention station:

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

More on why libraries are the true schools for writers→

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