Zen And The Art Of Writing By Ray Bradbury

A well-known author, Ray Bradbury, in his book “Zen and the Art of Writing,” he puts together nine past essays on writing and creativity and discharges every ounce of zest and gusto in him. Bradbury shares with his readers. his wisdom and enthusiasm on the pleasures of writing, as he examines a lifetime of creating and composing. The author's collection of essays on writing and creativity is infused with unparalleled joy and passion for the craft of writing. Bradbury is an author who truly enjoys his craft, in his book his intentions is to tell his readers why and how. “Zen and the Art of Writing” is a must-read for anyone, especially writers who want to find passion and joy in the craft. Bradbury’s book is full of insightful and enlightening tips for his readers. Part memoir, part writing advice, and packed with tips to keep their creativity on fire. The author's theme that ties all of his essays in his book together is the creativity and the act of keeping a healthy fountain of ideas flowing. Bradbury shares his wisdom on this topic not by preaching to aspiring writers about what they should be doing but by explaining what he did. The author was able to effectively tie his personal experiences both with the cultural inheritance that his family provided him
and with the changing in society around him.
Bradbury, from the start, brilliantly drew from his personal experience and cultural inheritance as the basis for his storytelling. By doing this, Bradbury was able to get an incredible response in his vast audience worldwide.
The author most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream.
The people’s values to produce Bradbury’s book were to believe in his accusations of the future and to share the knowledge through “Zen” he created in his writing. Allusions in Bradbury’s writing relate back to issues of the past. The author alludes to events in history and through his personal experiences, to provide as a reference point of what he has already experienced and learned throughout his career. Bradbury produced creative tales, that is full of errors in logic, which sometimes makes the meaning unclear, because of this it reflects the twentieth and early twenty-first century social and cultural
history Bradbury’s novel still continues to warn new generations of readers and thinkers. The echoes of Bradbury’s personal experiences of now a vanished Century that he once belonged to, along with the cultural inheritance and the historical environment that formed his art, which continues to become part of our personal experience, our cultural inheritance, our historical environment.