Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
Interpretation
Reading is fundamental to our existence, and libraries are essential for knowledge and civilization.
This quote by Ray Bradbury emphasizes the pivotal role that reading plays in our daily lives and the importance of libraries as repositories of human knowledge. By equating the library to our brain, it suggests that access to literature and information is crucial for cultivating an informed society. Without such access, civilization would struggle to thrive and progress.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of supporting public libraries.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.
People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word.
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.
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