"You don't sit up in a cave and……" — Theodore Sturgeon
"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 page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out."
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Theodore Sturgeon
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60 Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon
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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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