“There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.”
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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.
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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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