How to Enjoy Writing

Advice, cautions and encouragement for writers come from two prolific authors, Janet Asimov and Isaac Asimov. They cover arranging a life around writing, getting started each day, guarding against distractions, keeping things simple and renewing creativity, along with surviving the wait for a publisher's answer and coping with a scathing review. The couple draws on long experience with fiction, especially science fiction and mysteries, with science for general readers, and with children's books. Their points come through essays, anecdotes and husband-wife dialogues, with cartoons by Sidney Harris and quotes from writers they admire. The book concludes with a description of their working library of favorite books.

Bobby Voicu, founder of The CEO Library, cited a passage from it in an essay on making space for disorganization, recognizing in it something close to a habit he already had without ever naming it.