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"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."

"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."

"Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance."

"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."

"I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final."

"It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked."

"We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day."
Explore more quotes by 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 now."


"I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing."


"As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me."


"There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out."


"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."


"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."


"It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due."


"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."
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