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Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

Theodore Sturgeon quotes

American Writer February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985

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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
Theodore Sturgeon quote: "For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out...."
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have. Theodore Sturgeon
He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it. Theodore Sturgeon
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
Theodore Sturgeon quote: "I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't..."
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon quote: "As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever."
As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever. Theodore Sturgeon
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
Theodore Sturgeon quote: "You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all..."
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. Theodore Sturgeon
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. Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon quote: "I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week."
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week. Theodore Sturgeon
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it. Theodore Sturgeon
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. Theodore Sturgeon
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
Theodore Sturgeon quote: "In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities."
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. Theodore Sturgeon
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. Theodore Sturgeon

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