Top 22 Quotes by Robert Sheckley

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.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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