Sam Weller > Quotes

“We use certain authors at certain times of our lives, and we may never go back to them again.”
― Sam Weller, Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews

“he was lecturing at a local university and a literature class tried to tell him what Fahrenheit 451 was really about. They were wrong and he told them so. But they insisted that they were right. “No, you’re wrong,” he said. It went back and forth like this for some time, a lit-crit Ping-Pong volley, until, finally, incensed that the professor and his students thought they knew more about the work than the author who created it, Ray told them all to F-off. Afterward, angered, he stomped out of the room.”
― Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury

“Indeed, he was a contradiction. Ray Bradbury was a nostalgic visionary: He predicted the past and remembered the future.”
― Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury

“We both reveled in the wonderment of ideas. We both loved the initial stages of story conception, and, as writers, shared a belief that good story is everywhere: One just has to, as Ray would say, “witness and celebrate” it.”
― Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury

“He recommended to all the young writers in the audience that they not slant their writing for publications but, rather, that they remain true to themselves. “If the story is good,” he said that night, “there will be a market for it.”
― Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury

“While he may not often curse, Ray Bradbury does cry. Often. Tears of joy. Tears of sorrow. He cries when watching the news; he cries when people say kind things to him; he cries when recalling fond memories. Sometimes he cries several times a day.”
― Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury