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Robert Sheckley

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

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"I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it."
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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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"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."
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"Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal."
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"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."
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"I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it."
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"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."
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"A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind."
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