I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is. — 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
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. — 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
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
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw… — 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
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote… — 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
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. — 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 people who… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
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 Image
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
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 Image
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. — 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 reality against… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
