Books Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

— Isaac Asimov

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

— Isaac Asimov

Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read,…

— Isaac Asimov

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my…

— Isaac Asimov

When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious…

— Isaac Asimov

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

— Isaac Asimov

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

— Isaac Asimov

“Of course, the reader might argue that I was as stubborn in my viewpoint as they were in theirs. Yes, indeed, but…

— Isaac Asimov

The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that…

— Isaac Asimov

Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ...…

— Isaac Asimov

Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think…

— Isaac Asimov

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion…

— Isaac Asimov

Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring,…

— Isaac Asimov

To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always…

— Isaac Asimov

What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the…

— Isaac Asimov

I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I…

— Isaac Asimov

“For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a…

— Isaac Asimov

Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through…

— Isaac Asimov

“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is…

— Isaac Asimov

“I am trying now to re-create in my mind the picture of the man as I saw him in 1939- he, the…

— Isaac Asimov

What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered…

— Isaac Asimov

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the…

— Isaac Asimov

“In Hamilton 's The Universe Wreckers ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a…

— Isaac Asimov

“Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, "How did you learn all this, Isaac?" "From you, Pappa",…

— Isaac Asimov