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Robert Sheckley Quotes
A lot of us dont want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I cant say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we dont need faith anymore. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
I am very pleased and perhaps a little surprised also because I dont think one knows the extent of ones own work or the acceptance of it. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
I dont finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
I dont much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or Im doing it wrong now. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didnt want to interfere with it. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I dont know which. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
Im not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
Im not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure thats part of the territory. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
Im quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a mans real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
Ive always thought of absurdism as a French fad Id like to belong to. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I havent written about Oregon yet, although Ive been there 20 years - possibly Im almost due. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
Once you find you cant walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
Science fiction is very healthy in its form. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
So I try to stick with the structure, make the sentences work, and not to follow one sentence of 114 words with another of the same length. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I dont say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
The absurdist stuff wasnt terribly popular at the time I was doing it. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
Theres no sense going crazy over this stuff. Short stories help me with that, since you can do a story in anywhere from one day to a week. - Robert Sheckley Quotes
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