Endeavor Quotes by Robert Sheckley

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

— Robert Sheckley

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

— Robert Sheckley

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business,…

— Robert Sheckley

“You must realize, Mr. Blaine, that a man is not his body, for he receives his body accidentally. He is not his skills, for…

— Robert Sheckley

“But that's crazy, " George said. "How can I be the Average American Man? I'm only five foot eight and my name is Blaxter…

— Robert Sheckley

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

— Robert Sheckley

“She was an extremely attractive woman if you liked the type, which could best be described as homicidal schizophrenic paranoiac with kittenish overtones.”

— Robert Sheckley

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…

— Robert Sheckley

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the…

— Robert Sheckley

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even.…

— Robert Sheckley

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

— Robert Sheckley

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…

— Robert Sheckley