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I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.
— Robert Sheckley
Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.
— Robert Sheckley
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.
— Robert Sheckley
The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
— Robert Sheckley
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
— Robert Sheckley
I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.
— Robert Sheckley
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.
— Robert Sheckley
Very well, you possess free will; but now you must use your free will to enslave yourself to God and to us.
— Robert Sheckley
I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.
— Robert Sheckley
Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?
— Robert Sheckley
Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
— Robert Sheckley
Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.
— Robert Sheckley
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.
— Robert Sheckley
- "What is reality?"- "One of the many possible illusions. — Robert Sheckley
He shared the common human hallmark: he was simultaneously predictable and unfathomable -- a routine miracle.
— Robert Sheckley
An error which is not perpetuated cannot be viewed as any error at all.
— Robert Sheckley
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
— Robert Sheckley
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.
— Robert Sheckley
It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.
— Robert Sheckley
Sanity is a matter of consensus.
— Robert Sheckley
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
— Robert Sheckley
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.
— Robert Sheckley
Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
— Robert Sheckley
I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.
— Robert Sheckley
The Shits played raucous music, which was danced to by immature virgins in middleless dresses.
— Robert Sheckley
A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.
— Robert Sheckley
Number 402, your name is Will Barrent. Age 27, blood type O-L3, Index JX-221-R. Guilty of murder.
— Robert Sheckley
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.
— Robert Sheckley
I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.
— Robert Sheckley
The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.
— Robert Sheckley
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
— Robert Sheckley
