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One of my standard - and fair...

One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

I do admire great essayists. ...

I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of writing by naturalists. I've been studying the genre for years.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

Ultimately, you've got to hav...

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

At Case Western Reserve Unive...

At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, I started taking psychology courses. I was interested in the nature of the human mind, the structure itself, pathologies with which it is afflicted. I really intended to be a writer all along, but I needed to take a subject that I could make a living at, either teaching it or doing it.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

I am fascinated, I suppose, b...

I am fascinated, I suppose, by a flawed man with a streak of greatness.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

Space opera was the sort of s...

Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines. They were readily available in the stores.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

I read poetry every day. I lo...

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

I got the idea for my novel '...

I got the idea for my novel 'Lord of Light' when I cut myself shaving just before I was to go on a panel at a convention. I had to go out there with this big gash in my face. I remember that I thought, 'I wish I could change bodies.'

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

I always wanted to write, eve...

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

I find fantasy easier to writ...

I find fantasy easier to write. If I'm going to write science fiction, I spend a lot more time thinking up justifications. I can write fantasy without thinking as much. I like to balance things out: a certain amount of fantasy and a certain amount of science fiction.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

In any novel I write, I have ...

In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention in the book.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

In a sense, fantasy is a free...

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

Robots are very tricky to des...

Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots I've known.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

I have often thought of doing...

I have often thought of doing a story with someone either as a human being or as a robot who, by a series of stages, changes into the other end of the spectrum. By the story's end, he'd be either totally robotic or totally human, the opposite of what he once was. And possibly... bring him back again.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

When I got to college, I didn...

When I got to college, I didn't take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

The first time I met Harlan E...

The first time I met Harlan Ellison, we were both unpublished young punks in Cleveland, Ohio.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

I read Herman Hesse's 'Siddha...

I read Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha' while I was writing 'Lord of Light' along with many other things. It seemed a good time to read it so I could see what he had to say about Buddha. In my first chapter, I was thinking in terms of the big battle scene in the 'Mahabarata.' It helped me in visualizing the battle in my novel.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

Columbia University in 1959 h...

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

I try to sit down at the type...

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

You are a fool to speak of la...

You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.

Roger Zelazny 95 quotes

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