Skirmish Quotes

“To me that ineffectual little scholar, having trouble getting his magic sword in and out of the scabbard, was much more believable and sympathetic, and thus easier to write about, than would have been the standard brawny-fisted swordsman, for whom I'd felt slight empathy.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak

“I remember an editor who, while he published the story, objected to one of my tales. 'Cliff, the people in that story were losers.' he said. 'I like losers,' I told him–and I do. I like them because they are much more interesting than winners. Like most people, I abhor the man who always wins; he makes the rest of us look so bad.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak