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
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A few years ago, I actually did come up with a mocking sort of epitaph for myself. It's this: 'Here lies Robert Silverberg. He spent most of his life in the future. Now he's in the past.'
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I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.
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When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.'
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Back in my pulp-mag days, I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked again from one to three, for a work day of five and a half hours or so. I wrote 20 to 30 pages of copy in that time, doing it all first draft, so that I was able to produce a short story of 5,000-7,500 words in a single day.
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I'm up at 5:30 or 6, but not willingly. By 8:30, I'm in my home office. I take a swim in the afternoon, and I garden. We have about an acre of land.
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In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write.
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Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.
world fascinating
I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?
ignorance
Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.
unthinkable
Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.
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The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.
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Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.
unique feelings world
Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?
self promotion well-being
My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.