All Robert Sheckley Quotes
- 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… Building
- Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret. Action
- 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… Able
- Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function? 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… Account
- 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… Affection
- Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated. Able
- 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… Acceptable
- Science fiction is very healthy in its form. Fiction
- 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… All
- I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole. Been
- 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
- 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
- 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. 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… Any
- I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. Every Story
- I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. 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… Ago
- 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… Impossible
- A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt. Doubt
- 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… Almost Due
- I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I… Blessing
- I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to. Absurdism
- The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it. Absurdist
- The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important. Always Looked