I have a fondness for technology. It’s great to spend hours puttering around with mechanical things gotten from junkyards and visualizing what their use might be. Especially if you come across a gadget or tool and you don’t know what it is and you try to figure it out. I’m fascinated by processes, whatever they might be. Roger Zelazny Read Quote
At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, I started taking psychology courses. I was interested in the nature of the human mind, the structure itself, pathologies with which it is afflicted. I really intended to be a writer all along, but I needed to take a subject that I could make a living at, either teaching it or doing it. Roger Zelazny Read Quote
When I got to college, I didn’t take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class. Roger Zelazny Read Quote
So long as no one knows everything about you, you have resources you can call upon for which no one is really prepared. Roger Zelazny Read Quote
I have often thought of doing a story with someone either as a human being or as a robot who, by a series of stages, changes into the other end of the spectrum. By the story’s end, he’d be either totally robotic or totally human, the opposite of what he once was. And possibly… bring him back again. Roger Zelazny Read Quote
Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots I’ve known. Roger Zelazny Read Quote
Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines. They were readily available in the stores. Roger Zelazny Read Quote
I was writing ‘He Who Shapes’ when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore. Roger Zelazny Read Quote
I read Herman Hesse’s ‘Siddhartha’ while I was writing ‘Lord of Light’ along with many other things. It seemed a good time to read it so I could see what he had to say about Buddha. In my first chapter, I was thinking in terms of the big battle scene in the ‘Mahabarata.’ It helped me in visualizing the battle in my novel. Roger Zelazny Read Quote
