All Robert Sheckley Quotes
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
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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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I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.
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I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
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I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
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I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.
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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 as honest an account of himself as he could.
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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 of what I think are interesting questions for me.
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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 Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
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The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
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