Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

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• Ninety percent of everything is crap.
• A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific…
• If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love.…
• Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
• No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
• If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
• Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
• It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
• Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future,…
• I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
• 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 used…
• 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…
• When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
• When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
• Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
• I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
• 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…
• My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
• 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…
• In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

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