Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#enjoy #eternal #eternally #how #life

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

— Robert Sheckley

#longer #novel #often #process #self-doubt

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#ethical #great #great deal #interest #me

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

— Robert Sheckley

#i do #luck #matter #often #short

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#finish #five #i #out #probably

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

#doing #i #idea #like #look

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

— Robert Sheckley

#critic #fiction #i #never #science

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#doing #i #interfere #knew #right

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#arrive #examples #give #i #i think

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#forever #i #outside #reading #well