Meet Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury speaks about his writing as an act of self-love and self-healing:

'In the instant of getting an idea I go act it out on paper. I don't put it away, I don't delay, I don't postpone it for tomorrow, doing what I must do, right now, to find out what my secret self needs, wants, desires with all its heart... and then it speaks and I have enough brains to get out of the way and listen and, two hours later, sitting at the typewriter you look at the paper and you say, 'Ah, (...) so is that how much I was hurt?' So that we act out these tensions continuously, so we keep cleansing the stream, just as any impurity running downhill in the river by the time it  travels nine miles it is purified, so the life of a man travelling to the sea, which is our inevitable death, someday, purifies itself - it must! - because if you do not purify, these tensions remain in and turn in on yourself and destroy you.The man who cannot laugh freely is a sick man; the man who cannot cry, release his tears is a sick man; the man who cannot be violent through exercise, through sports, through acting out his violence on paper, or painting, or acting on a stage is a sick man. (...) We belong only by doing, we own only by doing, and we love only doing, and knowing.' Ray Bradbury