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Originally Posted by Greg Anos
Asimov was a writer, period. It didn't matter what, or how good, as long as he was writing. He said words to that effect in one of the short story forwards, in one of his books.
So some of his works are great, many are middling, and some are bad. He was at his best with puzzle stories, and occasionally with other material.
I enjoy the best stuff, and ignore the rest.
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I can count on the figures of one hand the number of authors whom I enjoyed everything they wrote and most of the time, it was because they didn't have a big body of works.
Back in the days of per word writing (i.e. paid per word), writers were under pressure to write a lot in order to pay the bills. Writers who had day jobs didn't have that same pressure, of course, but then again, they could not devote a lot of time to writing.