Theodore Sturgeon

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— Theodore Sturgeon

“90 percent of everything is crap.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“90% of everything is crap.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Nothing is always absolutely so

— Theodore Sturgeon

You must write to the people's expertise.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Writing is a communication.

— Theodore Sturgeon

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

— Theodore Sturgeon

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

— Theodore Sturgeon

If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?

— Theodore Sturgeon

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

— Theodore Sturgeon

The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

— Theodore Sturgeon

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to…

— Theodore Sturgeon

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.

— Theodore Sturgeon

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

“Among the many things it meant was that even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long…

— Theodore Sturgeon

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing…

— Theodore Sturgeon

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is…

— Theodore Sturgeon

Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will…

— Theodore Sturgeon

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test…

— Theodore Sturgeon

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only…

— Theodore Sturgeon

The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when…

— Theodore Sturgeon

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“I got to my feet and looked around the room. Just a room, only the one door. I tiptoed towards it. When…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“A billion and a half human souls, who had been given the techniques of music and the graphic arts, and the theory…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“She was perhaps seventeen when it happened. She was in Central Park, in New York. It was too warm for such an…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“This is the answer! The answer is not in getting and keeping, but in getting and giving. The answer is not in…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered for it. It’s a pretty fine piece…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“There was such a rush about me: wing, and tangled spray, and colors upon colors and shades of colors that were not…

— Theodore Sturgeon

Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed…

— Theodore Sturgeon