70 Quotes by Robert Sheckley

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

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.

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.

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.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.