Robert Sheckley Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Science fiction is very healthy in its form.”

“Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.”

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

“I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”