Quotes from In Joy Still Felt — Isaac Asimov
1920–1992 United States
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Writing is hard work. The fact that I love doing it doesn't make it less hard work.
In Joy Still Felt (1980)
The best way to describe anyone is to give an example of the kind of thing he would do.
In Joy Still Felt (1980)
The fact is that I've never called myself a genius, and I think the term has been cheapened by overuse into meaninglessness. If other people want to call me that, that's their problem.
In Joy Still Felt (1980)
I am not a visual person. I have spent so many bounded years in my childhood that I have grown used to having books as my window on reality.
In Joy Still Felt (1980)
No matter how various the subject matter I write on, I was a science-fiction writer first and it is as a science-fiction writer that I want to be identified.
In Joy Still Felt (1980)
Necessity makes a joke of civilization.
In Joy Still Felt (1980)
Of all the books I have ever worked on, I think Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare gave me the most pleasure, day in, day out. For months and months I lived and thought Shakespeare, and I don't see how there can be any greater pleasure in the world—any pleasure, that is, that one can indulge in for as much as ten hours without pause, day after day indefinitely.
In Joy Still Felt (1980)