Story Really Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon

As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.

— Theodore Sturgeon

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“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

“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

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

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

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

“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

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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