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
thinking too-much impossible
I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously.
writing thinking luck
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
thinking views giving
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.
american-author anywhere crazy help short since stories
There's no sense going crazy over this stuff. Short stories help me with that, since you can do a story in anywhere from one day to a week.
american-author follow sentences stick words
So I try to stick with the structure, make the sentences work, and not to follow one sentence of 114 words with another of the same length.
american-author field
I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.
american-author interfere knew selling
I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.
american-author cyber deal gibson great punk somehow speaks william work
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.
american-author
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.
acceptance american-author extent knows perhaps pleased surprised work
I am very pleased and perhaps a little surprised also because I don't think one knows the extent of one's own work or the acceptance of it.
years oregon ibiza
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.
blessing world curse
I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.
stuff
The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
important british audience
The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.