Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them. — 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
Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
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… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep… — 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
