"It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences,……" — Theodore Sturgeon
"It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself."
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Theodore Sturgeon
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60 Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon has 60 quotes on this site.
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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…
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If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the…
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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…
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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…
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The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an…
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More Consist Quotes
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
— Aristotle
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of…
— Louise Brooks
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
— Coco Chanel
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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can…
— Cesar Chavez
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
— Unknown Author
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Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley…
— John Playfair
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Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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