Robert Sheckley Quotes

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• 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, and…
• Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
• 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…
• Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?
• 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…
• 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…
• Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
• 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…
• Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
• 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…
• I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
• 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…
• 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…
• But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.
• 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…
• I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.
• I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
• 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…
• 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…
• A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

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