Roger Zelazny quotes - page 5

Oh, I don't know - that's a hell of a question - I don't tend to look at my stuff that way. I just look at it a book at a time. (Roger Zelazny)
I'd read SF steadily from when I was eleven until I started college. When I started college I said, "I'm not going to read that while I'm here, I'm going to learn poetry and other things of that sort" in fact I wrote a lot of poetry then. View quote
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It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you. View quote
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It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart-never the sensation of the moment. View quote
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When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love. View quote
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The fact remains that you would be dealing, and dealing constantly, with the abnormal. View quote
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You don't know what it's like to be cut off from a whole area of stimuli! View quote
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I don't know what I'll be writing a few years from now. I have some ideas - I have lots of different things I want to try. I almost don't really care what history thinks. I like the way I'm being treated right now. View quote
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Yeah, the mythology is kind of a pattern. I'm very taken by mythology. I read it at a very early age and kept on reading it. Before I discovered science fiction I was reading mythology. And from that I got interested in comparative religion and folklore and related subjects. And when I began writing, it was just a fertile area I could use in my stories. View quote
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I think what I'm going to do is vary my output, do some straight science fiction and some straight fantasy that doesn't involve mythology, and composites. View quote
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Nothing we did in those days has caused a change. (Roger Zelazny)
... Zelazny became a leading and representative figure of the American New Wave, with Harlan Ellison conspicuously goading all and sundry . View quote
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... when your body was destroyed as we entered here I was able to mn? you quickly through the process by which I became an immortal energy being. Thought you might appreciate it. View quote
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...And I have seen stranger things in a long and colorful career. Exactly. So what is the problem in believing my story? View quote
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Then it is impossible to get an honest answer from you. View quote
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Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to. View quote
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When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly. View quote
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Once a Buddha, always a Buddha. View quote
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I thought back over my life. How does a man come to climb mountains? Is he drawn by the heights because he is afraid of the level land? Is he such a misfit in the society of men that he must flee and try to place himself above it? The way up is long and difficult, but if he succeeds they must grant him a garland of sorts. And if he falls, this too is a kind of glory. To end, hurled from the heights to the depths in hideous ruin and combustion down, is a fitting climax for the loser-for it, too, shakes mountains and minds, stirs things like thoughts below both, is a kind of blasted garland of victory in defeat, and cold, so cold that final action, that the movement is somewhere frozen forever into a statuelike rigidity of ultimate intent and purpose thwarted only by the universal malevolence we all fear exists. An aspirant saint or hero who lacks some necessary virtue may still qualify as a martyr, for the only thing that people will really remember in the end is the end. View quote
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It is difficult to understand. It seems brutal, it seems harsh...” "It is life and it is death. It is the greatest blessing and the greatest curse in the universe. You do not have to understand it, Wakim. Your comprehension or your lack of it, your approval or your disapproval, will in no way alter its operation. View quote
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Silence, Set!” cries Anubis. "Don't listen to him, Madrak. He sees your weakness, as he sees the weaknesses of all things he encounters. He seeks to draw you onto a battlefield of another sort, one where you struggle against yourself, to be beaten by the guilt he has contrived for you. Ignore him! (Roger Zelazny)
And you, I take it, are Red Dorakeen?” "That is correct. Anything I can do for you?” "As a matter of fact, yes. You can die. View quote
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I try to write every day. I used to try to write four times a day, minimum of three sentences each time. It doesn't sound like much but it's kinda like the hare and the tortoise. If you try that several times a day you're going to do more than three sentences, one of them is going to catch on. You're going to say "Oh boy!" and then you just write. You fill up the page and the next page. But you have a certain minimum so that at the end of the day, you can say "Hey I wrote four times today, three sentences, a dozen sentences. Each sentence is maybe twenty word long. That's 240 words which is a page of copy, so at least I didn't goof off completely today. I got a page for my efforts and tomorrow it might be easier because I've moved as far as I have". View quote
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