Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
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 American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
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. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
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. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
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 American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
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 American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
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 American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. Theodore Sturgeon American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
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 American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
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 American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
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 American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0
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 American Writer More Theodore Sturgeon Quotes 0