Isaac Asimov Writing Quotes

#1. What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

Isaac Asimov

#2. 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 they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

Isaac Asimov

#3. Beautiful," he said finally.

Cassandra Clare

#4. Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

Isaac Asimov

#5. I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Isaac Asimov

#6. So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how you say it. The former is "content" and the latter is "style."

Isaac Asimov

#7. Sure and you've got to keep your own spitis up, for there's no one else will do that for you!

Jaclyn Moriarty

#8. At Disneyland, you never go 'backstage' - even when you're in the bathroom.

Hideo Kojima

#9. Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Isaac Asimov

#10. 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 work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

Isaac Asimov

#11. A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

William Ellery Channing

#12. There are enormous dangers in thinking that the world online is the world as it exists, that what you get from your one stroke on the Internet is all there is to know.

Ricky Jay

#13. Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task
such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping
I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.

Isaac Asimov

#14. There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

Rutvik Oza

#15. Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.

Isaac Asimov

#16. Remember Boogie Rule #6 (Don't watch local children boogie killer surf and say hey they can. do it , I can do it,) You like die?

Robert Wintner

#17. Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need for relationships.

Harvey Keitel

#18. When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.

Stephen Marley

#19. 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 don't know what the laws of nature are.

Isaac Asimov

#20. If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Isaac Asimov

#21. 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.

Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov

#23. I said I have committed incest father I said

William Faulkner

#24. It's the writing that teaches you.

Isaac Asimov

#25. Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

Isaac Asimov

#26. Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

Isaac Asimov

#27. 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 and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

Isaac Asimov