Deity
Here is a great interview that the Paris Review conducted with Ray Bradbury! It is full of paragraphs that you read once or twice or thrice before cautiously but feverishly copying it verbatim on a Post-It that you slap somewhere in your field of vision for everyday veneration, like a creed or a chant or a prayer.
INTERVIEWER
What about Proust, Joyce, Flaubert, Nabokov—writers who tend to think of literature in terms of style and form. Has that line of thought ever interested you?
BRADBURY
If people put me to sleep, they put me to sleep. God, I’ve tried to read Proust so often, and I recognize the beauty of his style, but he puts me to sleep. The same for Joyce. Joyce doesn’t have many ideas. I’m completely idea oriented, and I appreciate certain kinds of French writing and English storytelling more. I just can’t imagine being in a world and not being fascinated with what ideas are doing to us.
