All Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Theodore Sturgeon
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I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
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There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
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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.
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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
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You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.
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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't 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.
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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.
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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
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It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
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