Best Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
- Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough. Anybody
- The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. Been
- Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. Fiction
- Writing is a communication. Communication
- I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply. Always Written
- For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have. Dream
- Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. Exactly
- I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. Astonishment
- I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream. Conviction
- I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. Essentially
- You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by… American
- The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field. Any
- The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything. Business
- You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning… Able
- I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors,… Absolute
- There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do. Funny
- You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. All
- As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became… American
- Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. Basically Fiction
- Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. Fiction
- The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. Dollars
- You must write to the people's expertise. Expertise
- Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? Choose
- Ask the next question. Ask
- Nothing is always absolutely so Absolutely