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I'm quite influenced in this b...

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 himself as he could.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

I'm not too fond of the hard w...

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 of the territory.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

It is a truism throughout the ...

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

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Once you find you can't walk a...

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

So I wrote what I hoped would ...

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 I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

Science fiction is very health...

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

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I'm not so interested any more...

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 which all go excellent in their own way.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

I have never been a critic of ...

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

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There is a great deal of cyber...

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

The absurdist stuff wasn't ter...

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

So I wrote what I hoped would ...

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 I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

Science fiction is very health...

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

Once you find you can't walk a...

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

It takes me a long time to get...

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 written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

I've always thought of absurdi...

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

I'm quite influenced in this b...

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 himself as he could.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

I'm not too fond of the hard w...

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 of the territory.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

I'm not so interested any more...

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 which all go excellent in their own way.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

I was never able to write seri...

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 was not this heroic thing.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

I was forever reading outside ...

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Robert Sheckley 50 quotes

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