Quote:dannala1 at 10:49 AM June 06, 2012My first experience with Ray Bradbury. I am around six years old, laying down in the back of the station wagon on a six hour drive to our camping spot. My sister reads the Illustrated Man to us as we ride and my imagination runs wild. By the time I was 13 I had that book memorized and had read many others. I will never forget as I finished my book report where I had to stand in front of the class, my teacher saying that was the best book report he had every heard in his career. That I had made that book come alive and I did not even need notes. I smiled to myself because he had no idea I had lived inside that book since I was six.

I met Ray while in college and told him about that experience, he laughed then. I met him a few years ago at a bookstore in Westwood and he remembered me and that time. I have almost every book he was written and he had a powerful influence on my life and my imagination which is wild.

I teach animation now and use all that he shared in how to tell a viable story that takes you for a run until you are almost out of breath.
I've loved him since i was six and I am now fifty-six. Rest in peace Ray.....you made a difference.

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