Robert Sheckley Quotations

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

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

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.

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.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

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