Isaac Asimov Quotes

I can't start a fire with two sticks or hunt rabbits or anything like that.

All flesh is not venison.

To cook your hare you must first catch it.

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

Start with scout locations first.

So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.

I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

My mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.

The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn't even know how to boil an egg.

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.

When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli