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.
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret. - Robert Sheckley
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
- Robert Sheckley
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 inter… - Robert Sheckley
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 inter…
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. - Robert Sheckley
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.
Science fiction is very healthy in its form. - Robert Sheckley
Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated. - Robert Sheckley
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
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. - Robert Sheckley
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.
Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and s… - Robert Sheckley
Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and s…
Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint. - Robert Sheckley
Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.
The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important. - Robert Sheckley
The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.
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