Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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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…
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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.…
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Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
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Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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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,…
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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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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…
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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…
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When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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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…
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My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
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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…
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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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