The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.” — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
“She was perhaps seventeen when it happened. She was in Central Park, in New York. It was too warm for such an early spring… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
“Anger was foreign to him; he had only felt it once before. But now it came, a wash of it that made him swell,… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
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… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
“Living things aren't finished, you see. Everything they have ever been in contact with, each thought they have had, each person they have known… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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