All Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.
Theodore Sturgeon
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For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
Theodore Sturgeon
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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
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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 you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
Theodore Sturgeon
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There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
Theodore Sturgeon
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My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
Theodore Sturgeon
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There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
Theodore Sturgeon
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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 isn't fiction at all.
Theodore Sturgeon
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
Theodore Sturgeon
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When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
Theodore Sturgeon
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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 couldn't hypnotize me.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Theodore Sturgeon
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