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The Isaac Asimov Quotebook Search hundreds of pages of The Thunder Child for practically any science fiction topic you're looking for. Your search results will open in a new window. If you don't find what you're looking for, you can also search the web.   Web thethunderchild.com Searching! Searching! Searching! Compiled by Averil Chase Return to the ASIMOV QUOTES INDEX Asimov on Science and Science Fiction: [Books][Coining Terms] [Eye Sci Fi][Science Fiction][Science and Technology] [SF Writers][Superman] Asimov on Everything Else: [Asimov] [Education] [the Future] [Myth and Religion] [People] [Shakespeare] [Time] [Writing] on Writing Good writers are invariably fascinating writers - the two go together. In my opinion, the writers of English who most clearly the use correct word every time and who most artfully and deftly put together their sentences and paragraphs are Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and P. G. Wodehouse "Hints," IASFM, March, 1979 Asimov on Science Fiction, pg. 26 The years I spent on the Foundation Series were the most rewarding of my writing life-professionally, if not financially. They placed my name before the public in a way that an equal number of disconnected stories would not have succeeded in doing. "There's Nothing Like a Good Foundation," SFWA Bulletin, January 1967 Asimov on Science Fiction, pg. 284 I never discuss the engineering of the robots for the very good reason that I am colossally ignorant of the practical aspects of robotics. "Robots I Have Known," Computers and Automation, October 1954 Robot Visions, pg. 407 One way of achieving an act of creativity is to look at something in an unexpected way. "The Longest River," Magazine of S & SF, July 1988 Out of the Everywhere, pg. 85 To possess the power of concentration is to have a useful tool. "The Unrecognized Danger," Magazine of S & SF, February 1988 Out of the Everywhere, pg. 115 The quotation goes as follows: "Many brave men lived before Agamemnon, but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet." It [is] the poet's work and not the hero's that live[s] in memory. "A Sacred Poet," Magazine of S & SF, Sepptember 1987 Out of the Everywhere, pg. 128 I wish I had the strength and ability, as I have the desire, to write all day long, every day. "From Pole to Pole," Magazine of S & SF, May 1988 Out of the Everywhere, pg. 155 Things don't necessarily have to be useful to be interesting. "The Lost Art," Magazine of F & SF, February 1978 The Road to Infinity, pg. 4 To be a proper science fiction writer (in my opinion) one must somehow retain a nodding acquaintance with as many branches of sciences as possible. "Introduction," A View From A Height (1963) Pg. xi All quotes maintain their original copyright and are presented here for research, reference and review. Click on the icons for new features in The Thunder Child. Radiation Theater: 1950s Sci Fi Movies Discussion Boards The Sand Rock Sentinel: Ripped From the Headlines of 1950s Sci Fi Films

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