[Ads-l] Quote About Asimov

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

There was a long discussion thread on this topic on the Wombats list
back in April 2014. The subject line was: "Quote About Isaac Asimov
(Quotation Query #701)". Several interesting citations were located.
(I participated.):

http://lists.project-wombat.org/pipermail/project-wombat-project-wombat.org/2014-April/011014.html

Garson


On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
> There is a great quote about Isaac Asimov, which Wikiquote presents as follows:
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>   *   He had writer's block once. It was the worst ten minutes of his life.
>      *   Attributed to Harlan Ellison<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison>, quoted in Page Fright : Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers (2009) by Harry Bruce
>      *   Variant: Most writers hate to write, and will grasp any excuse to do something else ... There are exceptions. Isaac Asimov actually was never happier than sitting at a keyboard - first, his old typewriter; then, the TRS-80<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80>; and later, a more conventional PC. But then, Isaac was unusual, and his experience with writer's block was the worst 10 minutes of his life.
>         *   Jerry Pournelle<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle>, in "Chaos Manor: Is there an Upgrade in your future?" in Dr. Dobb's Journal : Software Tools For The Professional Programmer (2005), Vol. 30, Issues 374-379, p. 9
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> Can anyone point me to earlier evidence for this witticism?
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> Fred Shapiro
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