"Science fiction is very healthy in its form." — Robert Sheckley
"Science fiction is very healthy in its form."
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Robert Sheckley
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30 Quotes by Robert Sheckley
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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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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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As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical…
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More Fiction Quotes
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter…
— Margaret Atwood
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