Isaac Asimov Quotes

An author departs, he does not die.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

At some point of time, Imman won't be in this world. But my biggest asset would be if my biggest hater had at least 100 songs that I composed in his playlist. That's how I know my work will continue to live.

The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

Literature is the best way to overcome death.

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.