"Do what you love; love what you do." - Ray Bradbury

Bradbury's interviews were almost too hard to comprehend solo. If I had not read the book first, I would have been clueless. Even having read the book, his interviews almost didn't make sense and somewhat seemed to contradict his writing. In his interviews, it sounds as if he was going crazy in a "nerdy" sense. At the very beginning of his first interview, he stated that he fell in love with cartoons at an early age. He began to learn to read at 3. When he turned 7, he fell in love with animated cartoons. When he was 9, he fell in love with the future. When he was 11, Tarzan was being illustrated, by Harold Foster. I think these young ages put him off as sort of a geek, but he obviously didn't care.

He wanted to write a novel about how basically society was killing peoples' minds. He wanted to show how if things kept going the way that they were, he had an idea of how it would end up in the future. He beleived that television was horrible, and like the devil. He beleived the opposite about books - he looked at them as being sacred almost as GOD. That was a sign of symbolism that I found between Ray Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451. He does a great job in the novel of showing us about his passion for books and passion against television. He does this by telling about Mildred's TVs being "walls" and the actors and actresses being "family members."

I didn't understand his reasoning for the novel before listening to/reading his interviews. For that reason, I don't think he was accurate. He is one of the hardest people/authors to understand because he was so into his literature that it seems he lost his sanity.