'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.
Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
It might surprise people to know that the person who convinced me to write the third memoir - 'The Hardcore Diaries' - was actually Vince McMahon.
Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that's unique and for me incredibly influential.
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.