It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come 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. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — 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
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 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
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
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
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered… — 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
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
Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through… — 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
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
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually remember my dreams.)… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept… — 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
