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Writing Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
- Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
- Writing is a communication.
- I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
- 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…
- You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
- Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
- Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
- The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
- You must write to the people's expertise.
- There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
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