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Quotes by Isaac Asimov

'If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.'

'Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil - but there is no way around them.'

'I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.'

'You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.'

‘If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.’

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