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Article: Ray Bradbury
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- The Washington Post
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- September 11, 1994
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YOU MIGHT THINK that a man who wrote 30 books, 20 plays, two
musicals, two space-age cantatas, 12 books of poetry, three books of
essays, half-a-dozen film scripts and 500 short stories would need a
vacation now and then. Not Ray Bradbury. "I've never had a vacation
in my life!" he says exuberantly. "Why should I? I've never
worked!"
For Bradbury, writing is playing. No suffering, slavish
wordsmith he. "I don't think I know what writer's block is," he
says. "I never had it. My typewriter goes everywhere I go. I get
up at 3 a.m. every day, head for the keyboard, laugh a lot, then go
back to bed." It takes him two hours to write a poem, half a day to
finish a short story, nine days for a ...