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 Copy Share Image
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ...… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The Library was outmoded and archaic—it had been so even in Ebling Mis's time—but that was all to the good. Pelorat always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image