Detroit Free Press writer Ellen Creager related that "once, interviewer Barbara Walters asked Asimov what he'd do if he was told he had only six months to live. 'I'd type faster,' he replied." He revised each story only once, believing--as he said in
In Memory Yet Green, the first volume of his autobiography--that "if after two typings the result proves unsatisfactory, it has always seemed to me it is better abandoned. There is less trouble and trauma involved in writing a new piece than in trying to salvage an unsatisfactory old one." He vacationed infrequently and claims never to have experienced "writer's block." He also maintained complete control over what he described, in his introduction to
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories, as "an absolutely one-man operation. I have no assistants of any kind. I have no agent, no business manager, no research aides, no secretary, no stenographer. I do all my own typing, all my own proof reading, all my own indexing, all my own research, all my own letter writing, all my own telephone answering. I like it that way. Since I don't have to deal with other people, I can concentrate more properly on my work, and get more done."
Childhood Science Fiction Interest
Asimov's interest in science fiction began when he first noticed several of the early s.f.
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