Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley was an American writer. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 July 1928
CountryUnited States of America
science healthy fiction
Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
science fiction would-be
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.
able complicated walks
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
hard-work writing self
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.
war house lines
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 so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.
real hero men
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.
hero writing able
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.
regret experts action
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
science fiction critics
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
philosophy ethical interest
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
fads
I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.
self doubt process
A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.
viewpoints originality concepts
Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.
writing thinking luck
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.