“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things like Daniel and the lion’s den, and the Tower of Babel. People remember these metaphors because they are so vivid you can’t get free of them and that’s what kids like in school. They read about rocket ships and encounters in space, tales of dinosaurs. All my life I’ve been running through the fields and picking up bright objects. I turn one over and say, Yeah, there’s a story. And that’s what kids like. Today, my stories are in a thousand anthologies. And I’m in good company. The other writers are quite often dead people who wrote in metaphors: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne. All these people wrote for children. They may have pretended not to, but they did.
— Ray Bradbury talks about why his books are widely taught, despite his lack of a college education. From Sam Weller’s Listen to The Echos: The Ray Bradbury Interviews, coming out next month. (via Moby Lives) (via newsroom)
I love Ray and Sam! They’re both absolutely amazing people. Fun fact: I’m one of the people thanked at the back of The Bradbury Chronicles because I did a little research help on the book. I’m psyched for this companion text to come out, and to go to the release party when it does!
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