Ray Bradbury, 89-year-old author of Fahrenheit 451, still holds a room of 1000 people spellbound each year at the Festival of Books, recounting moments in his journey and exhorting his listeners to "Do what you love."
Two memorable anecdotes this year: His brother was a professional football player. He wrote a poem about his love for football and it was published in Pro Football, reprinted twice, including once on the cover... "A poem on the cover of Pro Football" he laughed.
Producer John Huston asked him to write a screen play for Moby Dick. His answer: "I've never been able to read that damn thing." But he read it. "God touched me, Herman Melville touched me," and he wrote the screen play.
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