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Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldnt hypnotize me. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Basically, fiction is people. You cant write fiction about ideas. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that youre talking about, even though it may be another one altogether. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Fiction is very important to me. Its what I do, its what I do with my life. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
For years, I thought I simply didnt dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didnt have. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Heres the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
I feel angry that I cant be hypnotized. Im not putting it down, and Im not saying that it doesnt exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didnt know it. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I dont dream, because I never could retrieve a dream. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, thats what you do. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Ive always written very tightly, and theres a good reason for that. Theres no point in using words that youre not going to apply. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
More and more, Ive come to the feeling that Im looking for people who believe in something, virtually anything, providing they believe in it. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Ninety percent of everything is crap. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didnt have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didnt have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isnt fiction at all. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars. - Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
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