Book Twenty-Six: Zen in the Art of Writing

Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury, 1990.

                                                                   

TTR: a couple of days

Comments:

This is the sort of book that could very easily end up highlighted front to back, if I had no self-restraint. It is soooooo quotable that, while I was reading it, I posted one or two quotes to Facebook a day. Yup. I finally had to cut myself off, slap my hands whenever I reached for a highlighter or facebook, and content myself with underlining in pencil.

Perhaps my favorite post and quote from the book:

9:29pm

Feels very true (if melodramatic) of my life this summer: "If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy, or both. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. For writing allows just the proper recipes of truth, life, reality, as you are able to eat, drink, and digest without hyperventilating and flopping like a dead fish in your bed." --Ray Bradbury