The Washington Post, September 11th, 1994
YOU MIGHT THINK that a man who wrote 30 books, 20 plays, two musicals, two space-age cantatas, 12 books of poetry, three books of essays, half-a-dozen film scripts and 500 short stories would need a vacation now and then. Not Ray Bradbury. "I've never had a vacation in my life!" he says exuberantly. "Why should I? I've never worked!" For Bradbury, writing is playing. No suffering, slavish wordsmith he. "I don't think I know what writer's block is," he says. "I never had it. My typewriter goes everywhere I go. I get up at 3 a.m. every day, head for the keyboard, laugh a lot, then go back to bed...
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