Quotes by Roger Zelazny

About Roger Zelazny:

Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (also out of 14 nominations), including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel ...And Call Me Conrad (1965; subsequently published under the title This Immortal, 1966) and then the novel Lord of Light (1967).
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First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common cause which is greater than any one man. I believe that I serve such a cause, or I would not be doing it.

Roger Zelazny

One of the disadvantages of traveling alone is that when you fall there is none to assist you.

Roger Zelazny

But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!

Roger Zelazny

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Roger Zelazny

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

Roger Zelazny

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

Roger Zelazny

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

Roger Zelazny

My dearest Pudding pie" I read aloud. "Yes, my little turnip?" "Hilarious," I muttered. "If you ever call me anything of the sort again we shall have words.

Roger Zelazny

It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is undependable at best, and folks in one river system are always trying to steal water from another.

Roger Zelazny

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

Roger Zelazny

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Roger Zelazny

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

Roger Zelazny

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

Roger Zelazny

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

Roger Zelazny

I enjoy slaughtering beasts," he said, "and I think of my relatives constantly.

Roger Zelazny

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can pla...

Roger Zelazny

Author Bio

  • NameRoger Zelazny
  • DescriptionAmerican speculative fiction writer
  • BornMay 13, 1937
  • DiedJune 14, 1995
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksLord Of Light; The Chronicles Of Amber; Isle Of The Dead; The Doors Of His Face, The Lamps Of His Mouth, And Other Stories; Doorways In The Sand; Eye Of Cat; Unicorn Variations; A Night In The Lonesome October
  • AwardsHugo Award; Nebula Award