Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverbergis a prolific American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 January 1935
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
believe writing men
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing. I don’t think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the James Tiptree stories is male.
long enemy waste
To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.
order might behavior
Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.
cheer mind dying
Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.
dying fleeting vitality
When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.
born accidents universe
We are born by accident into a purely random universe.
may matter stale
Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.
defining extravagance nonsensical
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
men risk soul
Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.
hate emotional waste
I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.
chance shut-up
Never pass by a chance to shut up.
data names two
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.
taken believe soul
There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.
writing three
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.