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.
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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.Robert Sheckley
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I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.
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I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.
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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.
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The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.
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