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Robert Silverberg is an acclaimed American science fiction author and editor. His prolific career includes hundreds of novels and short stories, earning him multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards. He is celebrated for his imaginative world-building and explorations of psychological and social themes in speculative fiction. Here are 96 of his quotes:
I have come to prefer something looser, a rough sort of definition which says simply that science fiction attempts to portray that which does not exist, a speculative reality, but endeavors to explore the consequences of such a speculation in a rigorous, systematic, and scientifically plausible way.
Robert Silverberg
My style too reflects the man, for I know myself to be earnest, solemn, fond of courtly gestures, and given to communicating more perhaps than others realy want to know; al these traits I find in my own prose. It has its faults, yet am I pleased with it: I have my faults, yet am I pleased with me.
Robert Silverberg
Back in the 1950's, at the outset of my career, I had allowed some early discouragements in the marketplace to turn me into a purveyor of mass-produced claptrap; I had written (and sold) untold reams of stuff with titles like "Guardians of the Crystal Gate” and "Thunder over Starhaven,” unreconstructed zap-zap pulp adventure fiction.
Robert Silverberg
The process of changing your mind is a tricky one. You start at Position A, which you hold with stern stubbornness, resolving never to give it up. Then you start to question your original resolution. Is it wise to be so stubborn? Perhaps you should consider alternate ideas. You revise your original inflexibility a little, abandoning Position A and adopting Position B, which is very much like it in most ways, with only a few ifs and maybes added. Then, by a gradual series of compromises, private deals, and shifts of purpose, you slide spinelessly through the alphabet until you arrive at Position Z, the total opposite of your original point of view.
Robert Silverberg
Of course, Chalk had little need for further money. It had motivated him once, but not now. Nor did the acquisition of greater power please him much. Despite the customary theories, Chalk had attained sufficient power so that he was willing to stop expanding if only he could be sure of holding what he had. No, it was something else, something inner, that governed his decisions now. When the love of money and the love of power are both sated, the love of love remains.
Robert Silverberg
Why should that be, LuAnn? Why should we be put into such a wonderful world and then have everything taken away from us? God's will? No, LuAnn, God is love, and God wouldn't have done such a cruel thing to us, so therefore there is no God, there's only death, Death, whom we must reject.
Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg
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Occupation: American Author
Born: January 15, 1935
Quotes count: 96
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