If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.
Quotes from Asimov's Chronology of the World — Isaac Asimov
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Isaac Asimov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Isaac Asimov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.