Isaac Asimov Quotes

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort of the way you feel at the end of a really good book and you know you're going to miss the main character. But in this case, the main character is me! Myself. Joe (formerly JoDan) Bunch. —Joe Bunch

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own.

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

This life is a process of learning.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books.

In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

I'm not trying to take over the world, but I find it really rewarding to write, and I thrive on learning.

When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.