Roger Zelazny cytaty

Roger Joseph Zelazny – amerykański pisarz science fiction i fantasy. Używał również pseudonimu Harrison Denmark.

Urodził się w Euclid w Ohio, jako jedyne dziecko Josephine Sweet oraz Josepha Franka Zelazny’ego . Jego ojciec był emigrantem z Polski, z miejscowości Rypin, a matka amerykańską Irlandką.

W liceum Roger redagował szkolną gazetkę, dołączył również do klubu Creative Writing Club. W jesieni 1955 roku zaczął uczęszczać do Case Western Reserve University, którą ukończył w 1959 roku. Dostał się do Uniwersytetu Columbia w Nowym Jorku, który ukończył w 1962 roku.

W fanzinie „Thurban 1" pojawiła się pierwsza część jego opowiadania Conditional Benefit. Jego pierwsze opublikowane opowiadanie to Mr. Fuller’s Revolt . Jako profesjonalny pisarz zadebiutował opowiadaniami Jego wielki wyścig oraz Jeźdźcy .

Roger Zelazny w wieku 38 lat przeniósł się do Santa Fe. Zmarł w 1995 roku z powodu niedoczynności nerek spowodowanej rakiem jelita grubego. Inne źródła błędnie podają raka płuc.

Na jego cześć doktor Koen Martens nazwał małżoraczki – Sclerocypris zelaznyi.

Roger Zelazny został oznaczony nagrodą Nebula trzykrotnie , a nagrodą Hugo sześciokrotnie .

✵ 13. Maj 1937 – 14. Czerwiec 1995   •   Natępne imiona როჯერ ჟელიაზნი

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Roger Zelazny słynne cytaty

„Odwróciłem się wtedy i ruszyłem w długą drogę do Chaosu.”

Słowa Merlina kończące Kroniki Amberu.
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„Nikt nie kradnie książek, oprócz przyjaciół.”

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„Przeklęty jeśli to zrobię. Przeklęty jeśli odjadę.”

bohater zastanawia się, czy pomóc kobiecie, ale jego koń uświadamia mu, że to pułapka.
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„I chciałbyś, żebym o tym wspomniał przy najbliższej dyskusji o atomowej rzeźbie Tony'ego Price'a?”

Merlin do Randoma, który chce by ten wstawił się za pokonanym niedoszłym królem Kashfy.
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„Kiedy ludzie zamieniają się w posągi, jesteś w niewłaściwym miejscu albo masz kłopoty.”

Fiona do Corwina, przypomina słowa Oberona o magicznym Klejnocie.
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„A deszcze bez rynien nie często padają między nami…”

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kilkukrotnie wypowiadane słowa przez Corwina w roli narratora.

„Oto życie: zaufaj komuś, a zostaniesz zdradzony. Nie zaufaj, a sam siebie zdradzisz.”

Merlin gdy nagle znalazł się w nieznanym sobie miejscu.
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„Zdjąłem z siodła złowieszczy pakunek i zostawiłem konia do przeglądu i obsługi technicznej.”

Corwin wraca do Amberu, z informacją, że Caine nie żyje. Pakunek to zwłoki stwora z Cienia, który prawdopodobnie zabił jego brata.
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„Kto nie ryzykuje, ten nie wygrywa.”

Merlin do Jasry
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Roger Zelazny: Cytaty po angielsku

“The fact remains that you would be dealing, and dealing constantly, with the abnormal.”

Roger Zelazny książka He Who Shapes

He Who Shapes (1965)
Kontekst: The fact remains that you would be dealing, and dealing constantly, with the abnormal. The power of a neurosis is unimaginable to ninety-nine point et cetera percent of the population, because we can never adequately judge the intensity of our own — let alone those of others, when we only see them from the outside. That is why no neuroparticipant will ever undertake to treat a full­blown psychotic. The few pioneers in that area are all themselves in therapy today. It would be like driving into a maelstrom. If the therapist loses the upper hand in an intense session he becomes the Shaped rather than the Shaper. The synapses respond like a fission reaction when ner­vous impulses are artificially augmented. The transference effect is almost instantaneous.

“You don’t know what it’s like to be cut off from a whole area of stimuli!”

Roger Zelazny książka He Who Shapes

He Who Shapes (1965)
Kontekst: You don’t know what it’s like to be cut off from a whole area of stimuli! To know that a Mongoloid idiot can experience something you can never know — and that he cannot appreciate it because, like you, he was condemned before birth in a court of biological happenstance, in a place where there is no justice — only fortuity, pure and simple.

“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.”

On how he would like to be remembered (1994)
Kontekst: 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. Something like the Amber books are in a different class. I try not to anticipate. 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.

“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.”

"A Conversation With Roger Zelazny" (8 April 1978), talking with Terry Dowling and Keith Curtis in Science Fiction Vol. 1, #2 (June 1978) http://web.archive.org/web/20070701010155/zelazny.corrupt.net/19780408int.html#2
Kontekst: 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.
I was saying at the convention in Melbourne that after a time I got typed as a writer of mythological science fiction, and at a convention I'd go to I'd invariably wind up on a panel with the title "Mythology and Science Fiction". I felt a little badly about this, I was getting considered as exclusively that sort of writer. So I intentionally tried to break away from it with things like Doorways in the Sand and those detective stories which came out in the book My Name Is Legion, and other things where I tried to keep the science more central.
But I do find the mythological things are creeping in. I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. 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.

“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.”

"A Conversation With Roger Zelazny" (8 April 1978), talking with Terry Dowling and Keith Curtis in Science Fiction Vol. 1, #2 (June 1978) http://web.archive.org/web/20070701010155/zelazny.corrupt.net/19780408int.html#2
Kontekst: 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.
I was saying at the convention in Melbourne that after a time I got typed as a writer of mythological science fiction, and at a convention I'd go to I'd invariably wind up on a panel with the title "Mythology and Science Fiction". I felt a little badly about this, I was getting considered as exclusively that sort of writer. So I intentionally tried to break away from it with things like Doorways in the Sand and those detective stories which came out in the book My Name Is Legion, and other things where I tried to keep the science more central.
But I do find the mythological things are creeping in. I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. 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.

“So I sat down and made a list of everything I felt I should know more about. Astrophysics, oceanography, marine biology, genetics… Then when I'd finished the list I read one book in each of these areas. When I'd finished I went back and read a second book until I'd read ten books in each area. I thought that it wouldn't turn me into a terrific, fantastic expert but I'd at least have enough material there to know if I was saying something wrong.”

Phlogiston interview (1995)
Kontekst: When I started writing my first novel,... And Call Me Conrad, they always say: "Write about what you know" and I said "Well, if I get a nice sort of combination SF and Fantasy with these resonances from Greek Mythology it might be pretty good. It would also give me a chance to start filling in my background on all those things I don't know much about but should if I want to be an SF writer."
So I sat down and made a list of everything I felt I should know more about. Astrophysics, oceanography, marine biology, genetics... Then when I'd finished the list I read one book in each of these areas. When I'd finished I went back and read a second book until I'd read ten books in each area. I thought that it wouldn't turn me into a terrific, fantastic expert but I'd at least have enough material there to know if I was saying something wrong. And I'd also know where to turn to get the information I want to make it right.
While I was doing this, to keep the words and cheques flowing I wrote books involving mythology. And once I started picking up things involving astrophysics I'd write stories that played with those sorts of things. So that's why I started out with mythology.

“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".
Phlogiston interview (1995)

“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.”

On how he would like to be remembered (1994)
Kontekst: 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. Something like the Amber books are in a different class. I try not to anticipate. 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.

“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.”

Phlogiston interview (1995)
Kontekst: Well, I decided that as a teenager that I really didn't know enough to describe character well and I was wasting my time. I'd learned as much as I could about story telling techniques and it wasn't a matter of technique any more. It was a matter of substance. As a result I said I was going to wait until I was a lot older and had more experience. So it was that after I got out of college I'd been away from SF for about four years. 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.

“Death is the only god that comes when you call.”

Roger Zelazny książka Frost & Fire

24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai (1985) - Review of 24 views, with images http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/gallery/hokusai/24views.htm
Źródło: Frost & Fire

“Nobody steals books but your friends.”

Roger Zelazny książka Karabiny Avalonu

Źródło: The Guns of Avalon

“Good-bye and hello, as always.”

Roger Zelazny The Courts of Chaos

Źródło: The Courts of Chaos

“Love is a negative form of hatred.”

Roger Zelazny książka This Immortal

Źródło: This Immortal

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