Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverbergis a prolific American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 January 1935
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
ace days followed novel pages seven six thirty typical weeks
In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write.
epitaph few future lies life mocking robert sort spent
A few years ago, I actually did come up with a mocking sort of epitaph for myself. It's this: 'Here lies Robert Silverberg. He spent most of his life in the future. Now he's in the past.'
famous fiction hand list science writers
I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.
acre home swim
I'm up at 5:30 or 6, but not willingly. By 8:30, I'm in my home office. I take a swim in the afternoon, and I garden. We have about an acre of land.
again copy five half hour hours pages produce single time took words work worked wrote
Back in my pulp-mag days, I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked again from one to three, for a work day of five and a half hours or so. I wrote 20 to 30 pages of copy in that time, doing it all first draft, so that I was able to produce a short story of 5,000-7,500 words in a single day.
color years vision
It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.
writing three
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.
taken believe soul
There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.
defining extravagance nonsensical
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
doe unyielding
Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.
born accidents universe
We are born by accident into a purely random universe.
dying fleeting vitality
When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.
cheer mind dying
Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.
order might behavior
Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.