70 Quotes by Robert Sheckley

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.

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.

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.

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.

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

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.

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.

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.