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All Quotes by author - Robert Sheckley
" 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 unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind. "
Enjoy
World
Serious
" A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt. "
Handling
Self-Doubt
Process
" 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 my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me. "
Say
Ideas
Heart
" Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal. "
Me
Deal
Questions
" I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. "
Finish
Out
Send
" 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. "
Look
Now
Wrong
" I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. "
Luck
Story
Short
" I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole. "
Critic
Science Fiction
Science
" I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it. "
Want
Because
Doing
" 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. "
Interesting
View
Think
" 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. "
Science
Way
Great
" 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. "
Hard
Hard Work
Battle
" 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. "
Heroes
Thought
Task
" 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. "
Long
Me
Time
" I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to. "
Belong
Always
Thought
" I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it. "
Forever
Outside
Reading
" 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. "
Never
Write
Seriously
" Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated. "
Life
You
Walk
" Science fiction is very healthy in its form. "
Healthy
Very
Science Fiction
" 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. "
Say
Out
You
" The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it. "
Time
Stuff
Popular
" 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. "
Think
Admire
Cyber
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