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Inspirational Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon
- Ninety percent of everything is crap.
- Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
- If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
- I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
- 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.
- As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.
- There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
- I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
- There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
- Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
- Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
- Writing is a 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.
- For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
- I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
- I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
- I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
- The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.
- There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.
- You must write to the people's expertise.
- Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
- Ask the next question.
- Nothing is always absolutely so
- Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento