Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley was an American writer. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 July 1928
CountryUnited States of America
american-author anywhere crazy help short since stories
There's no sense going crazy over this stuff. Short stories help me with that, since you can do a story in anywhere from one day to a week.
acceptance american-author extent knows perhaps pleased surprised work
I am very pleased and perhaps a little surprised also because I don't think one knows the extent of one's own work or the acceptance of it.
american-author follow sentences stick words
So I try to stick with the structure, make the sentences work, and not to follow one sentence of 114 words with another of the same length.
unhappy world want
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.
godly names function
Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?
police trouble truism
It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.
viewpoints originality concepts
Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.
writing thinking luck
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
writing three stories
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.
thinking views giving
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.
hard-work writing self
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.
blessing world curse
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.
fads
I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.
stuff
The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.