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22 quotes by Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical. Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.
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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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A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally... →

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

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A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

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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'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... →

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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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As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

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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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