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Theodore Sturgeon

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Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. - Theodore Sturgeon
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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. - 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'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. - Theodore Sturgeon
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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. - Theodore Sturgeon
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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. - Theodore Sturgeon
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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week. - Theodore Sturgeon
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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. - Theodore Sturgeon
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Ninety percent of everything is crap. - 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. - 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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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
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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. - Theodore Sturgeon
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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. - 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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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. - Theodore Sturgeon
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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. - Theodore Sturgeon
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Writing is a communication. - Theodore Sturgeon
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