Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimovwas an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was prolific and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 January 1920
CityPetrovichi, Russia
CountryUnited States of America
Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
Finished products are for decadent minds.
Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.
To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.
Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.
Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.
I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me.
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.