I was writing 'He Who Shapes' when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
When I got to college, I didn't take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, I started taking psychology courses. I was interested in the nature of the human mind,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I find fantasy easier to write. If I'm going to write science fiction, I spend a lot more time thinking up justifications.… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The places where I have the nameless character in 'My Name Is Legion' meet his boss are real places I've been to.… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“I was willing to die fighting, but it was senseless for all these men to go down with me. Perhaps my blood was tainted,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Time, too, is a function of Shadow, and even Dworkin did not know all of its ins and outs. Or perhaps he did. Maybe… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“And again, damn. Of troubles I considered myself amply possessed. But those who have do seem to get. Some spiritual form of compound interest,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Far below, the ocean was a bluegray rug being pulled out from beneath us.” — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“That was the first time in my life that I knew the meaning of despair. I read, I worked, I drank, I whored, but… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
