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.

Next quotes

• Robert Sheckley:

  I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to r

• Robert Sheckley:

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

• Robert Sheckley:

  I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

• Robert Sheckley:

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

• Robert Sheckley:

  I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong n

• Robert Sheckley:

  I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

• Robert Sheckley:

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

• Robert Sheckley:

  I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from

• Robert Sheckley:

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

• Robert Sheckley:

  I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and th