All Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
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I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
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You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
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Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
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I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
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