The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive. Robert Silverberg More Quotes by Robert Silverberg More Quotes From Robert Silverberg Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough. Robert Silverberg enough lost past My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being. Robert Silverberg well-being promotion self Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been. Robert Silverberg stale matter may I'm up at 5:30 or 6, but not willingly. By 8:30, I'm in my home office. I take a swim in the afternoon, and I garden. We have about an acre of land. Robert Silverberg afternoon garden office home I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met. Robert Silverberg famous never i-can science When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.' Robert Silverberg thought you science thinking A few years ago, I actually did come up with a mocking sort of epitaph for myself. It's this: 'Here lies Robert Silverberg. He spent most of his life in the future. Now he's in the past.' Robert Silverberg myself future life past Back in my pulp-mag days, I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked again from one to three, for a work day of five and a half hours or so. I wrote 20 to 30 pages of copy in that time, doing it all first draft, so that I was able to produce a short story of 5,000-7,500 words in a single day. Robert Silverberg words day work time In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write. Robert Silverberg doing day me writing
