NEA Big Read: Meet Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 remains one of the most iconic works in American Literature. At home with his cats and collectables, Mr. Bradbury talks about how the book came into being and what has sustained his extraordinary career.

[@tyfox8900]

Anyone watching this for school

[@gavingrove9613]

me

[@lisam3026]

yep

[@jacobpetitta7038]

Hell yeah

[@jooshpepe2001]

yeah it sucks

[@ewof]

me

[@doccreed7182]

"My God, I'm alive. Why didn't someone tell me I was alive?" Great line. What an epiphany he had which led to his writing several modern classics. This man was drunk on books and his words inspire me to this day.

[@wt3466]

Salvatore Mauceli no u

[@lizbombplaysXD]

I am here for school but I completely agree. it's a beautiful line and your first instinct is to laugh because, "What do you mean, we all our alive why would we say that to eachother?" But, it has so much more meaning

[@Mike-wr7om]

One of the early chapters in Dandelion Wine, my favorite Bradbury book, is a dramatization of this epiphany through his character Douglas Spalding. It is a gorgeous piece of writing in a gorgeous book.

[@nazguuls]

watching this for my ninth grade honors class. it was due a month ago

[@AURELIAN-restitutororbis]

same. have until feb to finish everything and I still have 30 more history lessons to finish lol

[@alexisreplogle9816]

literally same

[@brandonmwinyelle148]

bro same

[@hannah-ts3wu]

omg same LOL

[@sumiraadhikari5704]

same, except it’s due tomorrow

[@stellap.723]

his absolute joy when he talked about being called 'a poet' is my favorite part of the video.

[@finnmccool684]

I adore this video. I watch it about twice a year. It's like watching myself at 87 years old. And I don't say that lightly.

[@ezzeldean4206]

This guy is a real great writer. He got what it takes to be a legend. I wish I can be him when I am his age.

[@alexdipietro9341]

Me too

[@jacobpetitta7038]

Ray Bradbury is a gift to us, this man has amazing memories for being his age, along with his amazing love for the earth.

[@withlovefalseortrue9839]

I miss you, Mr. Bradbury. You are truly one of my inspirations to keep going in life.

[@kathleendougherty8574]

💯

[@axiomist1076]

I discovered this man in Something Wicked This Way Comes , when I was a high school kid, living in what was then (early 60s) a small town , Key West (Florida) with all the old white wooden houses and picket fences, just like the town the kids in the story lived in. It fascinated me and Ive never forgotten it. In 76 I remembered how that story had affected me and I looked for Bradbury in the bookstore in New York city. There I discovered The Martian Chronicles , which set me off reading sci-fi. He wrote a book on writing titled Zen In the Art of Writing, which is of great help to anyone wanting to write ( or do anything in life). In it he says that anyone who tells you to give up the things you love (because they may not be "cool") is not your friend and you should forget about them and do what you love, as he stated in this interview (do what you love and love what you do). And I have always thought that he IS a poet. Its obvious in the way he expresses himself when he writes Its beautiful. A great man.

[@1QueenMovie]

He has very good memory. This was a good video. His love for reading, books, and writing makes me reevaluate my love for it all.

[@ofgodzeus]

I lost count of how many times I watched and rewatched this interview I absolutely love it

[@rayvega3163]

He did live forever.

[@rayvega3163]

RIP to the legend,Mr. Bradbury. 1920-2012 At least I have few of your short stories (some of them are in short stories collection) and his novel "Fahrenheit 451" .

[@shethewriter]

I adore this short doc. I’ve seen it dozens of times. Captures him so well, and inspires my reading.

[@Mike-wr7om]

I agree completely. It is spiritual food for my soul. When I'm feeling weak, I come back to it, I feast on it, and my soul is revived.

[@maryalice5357]

What a national treasure. This film should be shown before the new movie. People need to understand. Love.

[@maiquyhuynh7927]

Thank you so much for your message, Ray Bradbury. LIfe is wonderful. I am grateful to read your book. Beautiful!

[@juanpablosolorio5056]

Amazing , Bradbury, beutiful soul and human being, i am glad to have read some of his books, though i read them in spanish, God bless him wherever he is.

[@jigsaw_in_place]

Required to watch for Ms. Dugan's LA

[@emaan7651]

Ella Clegg same bro

[@fuhrerboi39]

same oof

[@jigsaw_in_place]

Führer Boi haha y'all are watching it too, have fun

[@siennajade3127]

Me too lol

[@raymorel1971]

I love Ray Bradbury!

[@juanshaman3177]

Wonderful video. I found Dandelion Wine among my books so I stopped reading everything else to indulge in this beautiful little novel.

[@jeffthomsonmusic]

Hats off. A genius. Brilliant, brilliant Ray Bradbury.

[@erinj6116]

I’m so obsessed with this man

[@OldMod67]

I'm currently re-reading The Illustrated Man (UK version) again. There really won't be anyone as good as far as I'm concerned. Read him aloud, celebrate his stories!

[@archerdoesthings]

watching this for an assignment that was due 4 days ago.

[@makavlli5861]

REAL

[@wolfjones2438]

“The things that you love should be things that you do and things that you do should be things that you love” Listen up kids. This is how you become.

[@finnmccool684]

I love the music in this. Somehow, it's perfect.

[@someokiedude9549]

I only wish I had an iota of his exuberance and passion for storytelling and for life.

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

Literally my 1st memory is sitting under the table reading The Song Of Hiawatha in my Little Golden Book. asking my mother what an Island (Pronounced is land) was.

[@russelladams9147]

Heartwarming and inspirational.

[@spaghetti_man3807]

10:43 for anyone who wants to read the original from the magazine, here is a photocopied version: archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1951-02/page/n5/mode/2up Its on page 4

[@myriam-sigrunihlefeld2356]

Thank you a lot!

[@juanshaman3177]

Thank you!

[@lottalove2449]

FAHRENHEIT 451 is the best movie I watched in the last 10 years. Now I will definitely read the book too. Hopefully I'll find it. A very interesting and fascinating, yet diabolic concept/plot. Somehow, it reminds me of China's Cultural Revolution, when Mao ordered that all the books, besides his and the propaganda ones, to be burned. Scary scenario, really.

[@frncscbtncrt]

Love this gentleman

[@JohnSmith-nf8bi]

This is a never ending gift

[@RetrobertAZ]

Amazing interview

[@carlosbranca8080]

What a wonderful man...

[@nono-zb8px]

Such a beautiful, sweet soul

[@loganwest1782]

i swear, he's on something

[@RetrobertAZ]

He said he is on love lol

[@08Karimi]

He is on future

[@tyfox8900]

Many many things

[@dugonman8360]

To anyone watching this for school. Yes, this old man ranting about dinosaurs IS one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. You did not stumble onto some grandpa telling their kids about how nickles could get you 2 candy bars back in the day, this is infact the author of Fahrenheit 451 and the martian chronicles. You wish you will be as awesome as he is when you're his age.

[@RODRIQU3ZZ]

Anyone here from mrs wills class Clovis high

[@cherylsolem9875]

im here from mr Petersen's class from clivis high

[@spaghetti_man3807]

@@cherylsolem9875 Same but the next school year. edit: clivis high is a giid schiil.

[@frankandstern8803]

Above all the Baloney one's life can be surrounded by. Remember the Library folks? The thought of them gone or reserved for tramps or loafers is a sad idea. I am now becoming the man coming out of the library with books under his arm ,in Burgess' 'A Clockwork Orange." Chapter one. I remember posting a comment concerning the advantage of thrift stores supplying the public with books at very low prices , and how sometimes you could stumble upon old gems that can be hard to find. Then I noticed the reaction in my neighborhood. People started showing up with their phones scanning bar codes looking for books that may be worth something. Young illiterate schmucks loading up their carts. They missed the point. I want to throw up everytime I see this. I sometimes feel like Livy looking back to a time because the one he is in makes him sick.

[@johnmchugh8049]

If half the people in our world had his passion, we’d live in a utopia already

[@user-ky1ch8sv9h]

I wish this video didn't have background any music. It's distracting.

[@marioalbertovalente6049]

What a wise man!

[@paradox5775]

"And he took me in a tent to show me all the freaks"

[@game_ish925]

what is on his tie

[@j3n53n81]

I think it’s cats

[@cynikal5744]

Who's here from Ms.Alexis' class 🤔

[@Eva-bb1oz]

yurddd

[@chaseboyd3084]

Youre stupid

[@aidanbojo2239]

@@chaseboyd3084 oh the irony.

[@oldhippie81]

I was feeling happy before watching this. I feel even happier after watching it:-)

[@elizabethmulhall3386]

😊

[@emmarose4234]

Ugh...he was soooo handsome!

[@hannah-ts3wu]

hi people from schools whats up hi

[@TruthSurge]

godz... why the obnoxious monotonous synth banging the same chord behind this man's talking???? At LEAST you could have lowered the volume of it by 6 db.

[@SkatingErinsMom]

Wanted to watch but the background music was too loud. LD types find this very distracting.

[@jigsaw_in_place]

When people touch my books they're alive

[@emaan7651]

when people toucha my spaghet the DIE

[@Mrdonut-fo9tj]

ANyone here From Ms.Moores clASs

[@emilymikkelsen3203]

american lit gang gang

[@petrichor5294]

Can here because their a reader and a fan of Ray Bradbury?

[@wiisalute]

He and Isaac Asimov are the best scifi writers

[@rayzacarmo6932]

For Christ, I'm trying to discover the year this video was first released, someone who could tell?

[@lottalove2449]

Rayza The oldest interview on YT is from 12 years ago, so I guess this is a re-upload. However, Ray Bradbury died in 2012. Did you read his book "Fahrenheit 451"? Or did you watch the movie? It's crrrazy good!:)

[@finnmccool684]

I believe it was made in 2007, and released in 2008.

[@ryanc8201]

ray bradbury

[@talayanina2226]

Anyone here for school

[@raptorthepug3651]

10:25 he must be so disappointed with what our country has come to

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yo waddup

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riverview gang life 4eva

[@kristenng8403]

hi ms.laverdas class

[@susanllequis3832]

Has his books been tramslated into other languages?

[@oldhippie81]

Yes:-)

[@osivot]

He would have been a Jan 6 Trumper had he lived long enough.

[@jakebee7205]

What an absolute sweetheart

[@shermanator1187]

Mr Campbell’s from Dolgeville 🙄

[@bluefacebaby2590]

ok

[@HarjotSingh-jx5ir]

ok

[@Lucky-lp8do]

wheres the "You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them” quote

[@lilkranssy2849]

yeah that all great and all but i want to see the cat more

[@ezzeldean4206]

Donald Trump when he 75 years old.

[@spongebobahah24]

Y'all crazy this dude insane, some of y'all needa read the bible cause this man, no

[@JohnSmith-nf8bi]

Bible? With all the weird rules and intolerance

[@michealscoot1387]

ray bradbury shouldve written easier books ong

[@rookV1.08.4]

Who is this guy?

[@rayvega3163]

Ray Bradbury,an author of Fahrenheit 451.

[@mikethemike232]

He is THE author of Fahrenheit 451. @@rayvega3163

[@rayvega3163]

mikethemike232 ; I already know that.Because we share the same first name and currently reading Fahereneit 451.

[@TruthSurge]

Well, you didn't live forever but making it to your 90s is pretty good. At least your stories will live on for a long time.

[@patrickmayer9218]

Is it just me or does this guy look like Dennis Prager?

[@seanamcgee3427]

What a gift to humanity. And I'm referring to the man, the spirit.

[@adamangeles9570]

Find someone who talks about you like Bradbury talks about Aldous Huxley

[@zachb3103]

can someone summarize this video for me its for school please

[@daedalusfan3003]

Take the time to watch the whole thing, you'll get something out of it.

[@yun2125]

@@daedalusfan3003🤓☝️