Guest LilBambi Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 As I have mentioned in the past, I have been reading a lot of Isaac Asimov this years. Recently, I started looking up some information on the web and found this saved obituary of the late, great Isaac Asimov which included a quote Asimov made about himself in the most recent Who's Who (at the time of his death of course): I have been fortunate to be born with a restless and efficient brain, with a capacity of clear thought and an ability to put that thought into words ... I am the lucky beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes. ~ Isaac Asimov The obit is very well done and well worth a read. There is even a PDF version of a scan of the actual newspaper page with the obit on the page. I don't know how many quotes were made by authors about themselves, but I thought it would be fun to see how many we can find and list ones we find here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Very neat! Here is a nice list: http://flavorwire.com/357052/hilariously-self-depricating-quotes-from-your-favorite-authors/ The third one is by one of your fav authors Fran: “A conglomerate heap of trash, that’s what I am. But it burns with a high flame.” — Ray Bradbury in The Paris Review, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 I love that one! Thanks for choosing that one! Great list too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Thought you would like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Love it! Great one Temmu and the list too! Here's Einstein's from that list: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 (edited) Douglas Adams ... my hubby said I bet Douglas Adams has some great ones....so I went looking and found a few. Here's the one I chose: “My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.” ~ Douglas Adams Edited October 10, 2013 by LilBambi had to change the sentence ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patio Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 I loved and appreciated the Vonnegut one... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Yes, that was a great one too, patio! “It was dishonorable enough that I perverted art for money. I then topped that felony by becoming, as I say, fabulously well-to-do. Well, that’s just too D*** bad for me and for everybody. I’m completely in print, so we’re all stuck with me and stuck with my books.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut There was actually much more to that statement originally, it is a quote out of context as many are. That from Temmu's link. Here's the full quote from securitybreach's link: “Slapstick may be a very bad book. I am perfectly willing to believe that. Everybody else writes lousy books, so why shouldn’t I? What was unusual about the reviews was that they wanted people to admit now that I had never been any good. The reviewer for the Sunday Times actually asked critics who had praised me in the past to now admit in public how wrong they’d been. My publisher, Sam Lawrence, tried to comfort me by saying that authors were invariably attacked when they became fabulously well-to-do… I had suffered, all right — but as a badly educated person in vulgar company and in a vulgar trade. It was dishonorable enough that I perverted art for money. I then topped that felony by becoming, as I say, fabulously well-to-do. Well, that’s just too D*** bad for me and for everybody. I’m completely in print, so we’re all stuck with me and stuck with my books.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut in The Paris Review, 1977 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patio Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 but as a badly educated person in vulgar company and in a vulgar trade. It was dishonorable enough that I perverted art for money. I then topped that felony by becoming, as I say, fabulously well-to-do. Well, that’s just too D*** bad for me and for everybody. I’m completely in print, so we’re all stuck with me and stuck with my books.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut in The Paris Review, 1977 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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