How Ray Bradbury Wrote Fahrenheit 451 for $9.80 at a Library in Just 9 Days!
Ray Bradbury tells the incredible story of writing Fahrenheit 451
Over a period of 9 days I spent $9.80 and I wrote Fahrenheit 451.
When I was 30 years old my wife and I had two kids. Our small tract house was full of noise, and I had no money to rent an office. I was making only about $100 a week.
I needed to have a place where I could go for a few hours. I was wandering around the UCLA campus and down in the basement I heard this typing. By God, there was a room with 12 typewriters that you could rent for 10 cents a half hour. There were 8 or 9 students in there working away like crazy. So I moved in there with a bag of dimes.
Can you imagine what it was like to write in a library where you could run upstairs and feel the ambience of your loved writers and take books off the shelf? And discover things that you might want to put in your book as a quote, and then run back down and finish writing another page.
So it doesn't matter where you are, does it? Or what it costs. You can write anywhere. And that bookâmy God, that book is still around. It's amazing. I never had that kind of dream. I didn't think of longevity. I just thought of doing something wonderful that made me feel alive."
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