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Friday, April 13, 1919 21

Nice Jewish Boy Makes Good Author Isaac Asimov

to Isaac Asimov; whose heart talk. Yiddish is the writing books is easier to type.
autobiography, which has language of the common than most people think.
So you won't write 200
All you have to do is work books maybe. If you write
How would you like to just now appeared, is his people.
Anyway, it is plain that in a candy store and learn 50, is that bad?
202nd book.
write 200 books?
As almost everyone
Think how much time it
would save you! You knows, Asimov is America's
wouldn't haVe to go to the top writer of science fiction.
library. Benjamin Disraeli, If you want to know any-
"Son of C. Trojan"
was prime minister of thing about interplanetary
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& CARPET CLEANING much reading of the books of his books will tell you.
He was born in Russia
his day. No, he said, when
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he wanted to read, he wrote and came to America as a
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his record does not compare in Brooklyn and reading
the magazines which
were sold in the store he
first became interested in
soience fiction.
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But how does he write so
many books? a Newspaper
reg. $40
reporter asked him that
question and he answered,
"I like to. type."
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What could be simpler? If
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you like to type and if you
cover X number of pages,
some of it at least is bound to
have some value. It is like
the old Yiddish saying:
"What you need to be a
scholar is not so much a
good mind, as a good read"
— tb be able to sit and study;
But after all, one must
have ide-as to write. How
does he get his ideas?
The answer to this mys-
tery too, according to
Asimov is very simple "I
just think and think," he
said , "until something
turns up."
A good many people
would try writing a book if
they knew how to begin. _
There is the old German
proverb, "Alle anfange zind
schwer." (All beginnings
are difficult.) But, Asimov
has a simple solution for
that. He says, "If you don't
know how to begin your
story, start in the middle."
Asimov reminds one of
another: Isaac Bashevis
Singer, the recent Nobel
Prize winner, who was born
in Poland and in different
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ways both do the same
thing. Singer writes of the
demons and dybuks — the
mysteries of this lower
means business.
When ENCORE says bargains,
world — while Asimov
writes of the mysteries of
the upper world.
The BOYCE • K1912W
Both know their Yiddish
Distinctively. styFed, decorator
and I think both are helped
compact cabinet. Finished in simulated grained
American Walnut on top and ends with
by their Yiddish back-
metallic Silver color trim.
grounds. For the book of
popular appeal Yiddish is a
We've got yobr number -
good background. -Writing
You only feel as good as you look. -
Yiddish is a sort of heart to

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