00:28Gracias por ver el video.
00:31I suppose you wonder why I've called you all here.
00:35I want to identify myself. I'm Ray Bradbury.
00:39But you're very curious, aren't you, to find out how I fell in love with books.
00:44I learned to read when I was three years old.
00:47I loved comic strips. I loved the cartoons on Sunday.
00:51And I got a book of fairy tales when I was five years old.
00:55And I fell in love with reading.
00:57And when I was six, I saw a film on dinosaurs, and dinosaurs filled my life.
01:03A thing that begins when you're three and six and ten and twelve wind up in your fictions when you're
01:10in your thirties.
01:11The things that you do should be things that you love.
01:15And things that you love should be things that you do.
01:21I was seven years old when I went to the library for the first time.
01:25And I was hoping to find books about The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and Tarzan by Edgar
01:32Rice Burroughs.
01:33That was a great adventure.
01:34And I'd open the door of the library, and I'd look in, and all those people were waiting for me
01:40in there.
01:41You see, libraries is people.
01:43People are waiting in there.
01:45Thousands of people who wrote the books.
01:47My greatest influences are John Steinbeck.
01:50I read The Grapes of Wrath when I was 19 years old.
01:54So you find the author who can lead you through the dark.
01:59And Shakespeare starred me there.
02:01And Hamlet starred me there.
02:03And Richard III.
02:05And Emily Dickinson led the way for me.
02:08And Edgar Allan Poe said, this way, here's the light.
02:12That's where a library is.
02:13So you go into the library and discover yourself.
02:19Long at night, when I was 12 years old, I looked at the planet Mars, and I said, take me
02:25home.
02:26And the planet Mars took me home.
02:29And I never came back.
02:31So I've written every day.
02:33In the last 75 years, I've never stopped writing.
02:41We should learn from history about the destruction of books.
02:47When I was 15 years old, Hitler burned books in the streets of Berlin.
02:53So I learned then how dangerous it all was.
02:57Because if you didn't have books and the ability to read, you couldn't be part of any civilization.
03:03You couldn't be part of a democracy.
03:06If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life.
03:11Then you know how to vote within a democracy.
03:15But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide.
03:19That's the great thing about our country, is we are a democracy of readers.
03:24And we should keep it that way.
03:29I published the first version of Fahrenheit in February 1951.
03:34When I moved into L.A. with my family, I had two daughters.
03:38I needed an office because my daughters were very loud and wonderful and lovely.
03:43But I had no money for an office.
03:46I was wandering around up at UCLA.
03:50And I heard typing in a room down in the basement.
03:54And I went down to the basement.
03:56And I found a room that had 12 typewriters in it.
04:00I could rent a typewriter for 10 cents a half hour.
04:03So I said, my God, this is my office.
04:06It doesn't matter.
04:07I was surrounded by students.
04:09I got a bag of dimes.
04:11I moved into the typing room in the basement of the library.
04:15And I spent $9 and $9.80.
04:19And I wrote Fahrenheit 451.
04:22So you see, what a place where Fahrenheit 451 wanted to be written.
04:27In a library of all places where it wasn't being burned.
04:31So I made a contract with Valentine.
04:34And I went to the library again where, with the typing, in the typing room.
04:40And I added 25,000 words.
04:42How did I do that?
04:43I got the characters to come to me.
04:46Montag came and said, do you know who I am completely?
04:49I said, no.
04:50I said, tell me.
04:52And the fire chief came to me.
04:54And he told me about his prior life.
04:57I said to the fire chief, why did you burn books?
05:00And he told me.
05:02And Clarice McClellan came, who was a 16-year-old girl who was in love with books and libraries and
05:09life.
05:09Clarice is me.
05:11Clarice McClellan is Ray Bradbury, the young boy who fell in love with life.
05:16And Clarice is the essence of life and the essence of love.
05:21You see, all my characters write the book.
05:23I don't write the book.
05:25All these characters come to me and say, listen to me.
05:28And then I listen to them and I put it down and the book gets written.
05:32That's how I write.
05:33You see, all these lovers surround me and they love life and they tell me about it.
05:42At the center of my books is the gift of life.
05:45The reason why my books are popular is because they know I'm a lover.
05:50When people touch my books, they're alive.
05:54So that's the gift I give to them.
05:56And I want them to carry them back and forth to the library.
06:00Books are smart and brilliant and wise.
06:04Love what you do and do what you love.
06:07Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it.
06:11You do what you want, what you love.
06:13But imagination should be the center of your life.
06:16Fantasy at the center of your life.
06:21I'm going to have a t-shirt made.
06:23It says, stand at the top of the cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
06:32We are all the sons and the daughters of time.
06:36So I thank the universe for making life on earth and allowing me to come alive here.
06:44I want to close up at the camp now.
06:49I want to close up at the camp now.
06:57I'm going to have trouble with my mates.
07:00I want to close my entraids.
07:00I want to close up at the camp now.
07:00We are all the sons and the daughters of time.
07:03I want to close up at the camp now.
07:03We are all the sons of the tens and sons of excited.
07:06So.
07:35Gracias por ver el video.
07:48Gracias por ver el video.
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