Robert Sheckley

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#about #aware #background #because #heroes

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#deal #excellent #fiction #go #goes

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

#constant #figure #fond #goes #hard

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

#could #heroes #himself #honest #i

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

— Robert Sheckley

#belong #fad #french #i #like

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

— Robert Sheckley

#becomes #complicated #far #fast #find

Science fiction is very healthy in its form. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#form #healthy #science #science fiction #very

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#i #popular #stuff #terribly #time

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. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#comes #cyber #deal #especially #excellent