"I don't finish every story, but I probably……" — Robert Sheckley
"I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them."
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Robert Sheckley
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30 Quotes by Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley has 30 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
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I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and…
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Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?
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I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render…
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I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write,…
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Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
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So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote…
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Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
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I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like…
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I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
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A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy,…
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More Every Story Quotes
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one of 103 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides…
— Unknown Author
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There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours and the truth.
— Unknown Author
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else…
— Eudora Welty
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Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but…
— Flannery O'Connor
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In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
— Parker J. Palmer
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Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
— C.S. Lewis
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Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night…
— Pope Francis
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Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.
— Dave Eggers
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There are always two or three or four sides to every story.
— Denise Richards
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One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered.…
— Ron Howard
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Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale…
— Neil Gaiman
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Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers…
— Michelle Richmond
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