Rachel Bloom har klargjort i flera intervjuer att Ray Bradbury är hennes favoritförfattare.
Som hon sa i Dallas Observer :
"I was re-reading The Martian Chronicles that summer, which is one of my favorite books, (...)"
Och i Wired :
"I would say very earnestly that I am overwhelmed with how well he combines such mind-blowingly cool ideas with the realism of how humans deal with these ideas," she told Booktryst. "That's what struck me especially about Martian Chronicles or The Illustrated Man.... I found myself as emotionally engaged as I was mentally. If I really met him, I would be nothing but respectful and probably like the 12-year-old boy I secretly am inside."