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.
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I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.Robert Sheckley
The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.
Robert Sheckley
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
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.
Robert Sheckley
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.
Robert Sheckley
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
Robert Sheckley
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