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 can’t say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

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• Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

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• A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

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• A lot of us don’t 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.

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• I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

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• I don’t finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

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• I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn’t want to interfere with it.

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• I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

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• I don’t much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I’m doing it wrong now.

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• 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.

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• I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

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• I’m 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.

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• 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.

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• I’m not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that’s part of the territory.

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• I’ve always thought of absurdism as a French fad I’d like to belong to.

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• It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven’t written about Oregon yet, although I’ve been there 20 years – possibly I’m almost due.

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• I’m quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man’s real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

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• Once you find you can’t walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

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• Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

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• 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 don’t say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

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Robert Sheckley (22)

Birth:	16th July, 1928
Death:	9th December, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.

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