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Zen in the art of writing : essays on creativity / Ray Bradbury.

by Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.

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Joshua Odell Editions, c1994.

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012 -- Authorship.

Creative ability.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Essays.

9781877741098 (pbk., 1996 reprint of 1994 edition)

xv, 176 p. ; 21 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Joshua Odell Editions, 1989.

The prolific Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and many other works both inside and outside the realm of science fiction, apparently suffered no shortage of creativity. Prolific in his fiction writing, he also proved generous in his encouragement of younger writers. He even wrote enough on the subject of writing to constitute an entire book, the collection Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity. In the title piece, Bradbury, hardly known as a Buddhist, explains his use of the term zen for its "shock value": "The variety of reactions to it should guarantee me some sort of crowd, if only of curious onlookers, those who come to pity and stay to shout. The old sideshow Medicine Men who traveled about our country used calliope, drum, and Blackfoot Indian, to insure open-mouthed attention. I hope I will be forgiven for using Zen in much the same way, at least here at the start. For, in the end, you may discover I'm not joking after all."

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