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A review by eveningstar2
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
4.0
The title is a bit misleading. This is not a book on Zen, and it is not a manual on writing or, as the subtext states, "releasing the creative genius within you."
It is a collection of essays, among which the eponymous essay is the only one that provides practical advice on writing. Don't read this book as a how-to guide; read it instead as a collection of the author's remarkably lucid and passionate thoughts on the nature of writing, on creativity, on the imagination.
Read this book for inspiration and insight. Bradbury's love of writing is inseparable from his love of life, a "zest for living," says Bradbury, without which a writer is "only half a writer." It is a contagious attitude.
It is a collection of essays, among which the eponymous essay is the only one that provides practical advice on writing. Don't read this book as a how-to guide; read it instead as a collection of the author's remarkably lucid and passionate thoughts on the nature of writing, on creativity, on the imagination.
Read this book for inspiration and insight. Bradbury's love of writing is inseparable from his love of life, a "zest for living," says Bradbury, without which a writer is "only half a writer." It is a contagious attitude.