For that kind of money, I think I could learn to love Tolstoy

[Via Ta-Nehisi Coates] Ray Bradbury is interviewed in this season's Paris Review (teaser excerpt here, full interview only available in print).

INTERVIEWER: How important is it to you to follow your own instincts?

BRADBURY: Oh, God. It’s everything. I was offered the chance to write War and Peace for the screen a few decades ago. The American version with King Vidor directing. I turned it down. Everyone said, How could you do that? That’s ridiculous, it’s a great book! I said, Well, it...