"When I can't do something, this always impels……" — Theodore Sturgeon
"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
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60 Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon
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- Ninety percent of everything is crap.
- A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened…
- If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the…
- Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
- No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
- If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
- Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
- It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
- Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go…
- I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
- I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against…
- The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an…