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Writing Quotes by Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction,…
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those…
- Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they…
- Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have…
- No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if…
- I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of…
- Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of…
- When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.
- I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.
- We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to…
- I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.
- Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can…
- Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a…
- Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.
- You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that…
- What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no…
- The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
- Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he…
- Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to…
- It's the writing that teaches you.
- It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov