It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing. I don’t think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“History could be as arbitrary as poetry, he told himself: what is history, other than a matter of choice, the picking and choosing of… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“It’s because I hate to think that anything goes to waste. I mean, that anything that was ever important or valuable or precious to… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“Death was the only question that contained its own answer, and when you asked the question and had the answer you were gone, you… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“He met me at the airport; it was ten in the morning, Washington time, when I arrived, after having taken a plane that left… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“He felt disgruntled and obscurely let down at having paid good money to discover that the vision that had so irradiated his consciousness was… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us.” — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“As youngest boy in service, the worst jobs fell to him, and this would” — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image