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Robert Sheckley Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 16, 1928 - December 9, 2005

Topics

Work Hard Work Battle Write Hard

Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government.

Government Security Dangerous United

If you're going to be a zombie in a movie, you go big or go home.

Home You Go Big Going Zombie

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

Influence Book Anxiety Dreamer Long

I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don't notice because you're so interested in what's happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating.

Simple People You Creating Events

This bill, this badly named ENLIST Act, would put out the advertisement that says, 'Sneak into America. Sneak into the military, and that's going to be the most expeditious path to American citizenship and the whole smorgasbord of benefits that come from American citizenship.'

Path American America Citizenship

I'm sure a few marriages broke up because of feminism; it doesn't make feminism a cult.

Stefan Molyneux

Feminism Up Because Cult Sure Broke

I had my share of rejections.

Share Had Rejections

The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States on the map. Al Qaeda, traditionally, are much more educated, middle-class people, often from Egypt, from Saudi Arabia, North Africa.

People Find Say Egypt Map Farmers

I had liver disease. I'm completely cured now, but I thought about if I died from liver cancer, what my life would look like. I followed this wish of being a fiction writer.

Life Thought My Life Wish Look Now

We clearly see in God's Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It's easier to come up with excuses for why we can't do things that are hard or that we really don't want to do.

God Believe Excuses Want Why Will

More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.

Sea Vision Value Me Think My Own

'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.

Sweet Dare Say Fabulous High Little

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