He wrote "Fahrenheit 451" at the UCLA library, on typewriters that rented for 10 cents a half hour. He said he carried a sack full of dimes to the library and completed the book in nine days, at a cost of $9.80.

Jerry Rees and I also worked on this for about a month. We were sent down because we were told the project was drifting and were asked to check it out and give our assessment. So we went down to a building they’d rented in Hollywood to check out what was going on, and were staggered at the quality of the artwork on the walls. The key staff was half American, half Japanese, all great artists. AMAZING stuff. We were floating around, talking to people casually, asking them about what they were doing, and they said “we’re just illustrating what Ray Bradbury is writing”. We walked around some more among the jaw-dropping imagination and talent on display and ran into Bradbury himself. We remarked about the terrific work and asked Bradbury about the story he was writing for the film. “I’m just putting in writing what these wonderful artists are drawing”, he said. Jerry and I looked at each other; “Uh-ohhh”.