"There is less trouble and trauma involved in writing a new piece than in trying to salvage an unsatisfactory old one."
React to this quote
More by Isaac Asimov
See allResonant Thoughts
"As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his cl…"
"There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms—if only because our species is such an insignificant latecomer in a world …"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years. The latter are only helpful in the recurr…"
— Bram Stoker"I will simply not do penance."
— Adolf Eichmann"The critic has a purpose, but I don’t see my writing as trying to judge a work, trying to communicate its g…"
— Jack Sargeant (writer)"It is true that biologists have, many of them, given up what they call "Darwinism"; they have surrendered S…"
— James Harvey Robinson"I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend …"
— James Thurber"Whoever denies authority and fights against it is an anarchist," said Sebastien Faure. The definition is te…"
— George Woodcock
