"I've always written very tightly, and there's a……" — Theodore Sturgeon
"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."
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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 Always Written Quotes
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
— George Santayana
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I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
— Leif Garrett
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Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what…
— Anne Robinson
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I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an…
— Herta Muller
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Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three…
— Frank Bruno
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
— Tea Obreht
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them…
— Ian Rankin
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It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He…
— Nancy Reagan
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I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.
— Joan Armatrading
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I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher.…
— Justin Townes Earle
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