Write or Die: Writing Quote

by Shai on 3 October 2006 · 5 comments

in Writing Quotes

“I write for the same reason I breathe
— because if I didn’t, I would die.”

-Isaac Asimov

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Heather 3 October 2006 at 10:06 pm

Wow, that’s a powerful quote. ;-)

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Leo 4 October 2006 at 4:41 am

I would most definitely agree with this statement. Writing is my life!

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Therese 27 October 2006 at 12:11 pm

Great quote!

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Mikeachim 16 November 2006 at 5:44 am

Another of his:
“When asked what I would do ‘If my doctor told me I had only six months to live’ I answered ‘I’d type faster’.”.
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With 400 books under his belt by the end of his career, he certainly lived up to his promises.
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But: he wasn’t a great editor of his own work, and in my opinion it didn’t do him any favours. (But then, he used a typewriter!).

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jessie 16 December 2007 at 9:47 pm

nice quote… it really comes from a writer who breathe and live to write

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