Theodore Sturgeon quotes - page 3

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. (Theodore Sturgeon)

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

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Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

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You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

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Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

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Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

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I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. (Theodore Sturgeon)

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

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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 story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

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I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

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Writing is a communication.

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You must write to the people's expertise.

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There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

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There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.

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When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

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For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

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There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done. (Theodore Sturgeon)

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 and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

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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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It means "Ask the next question." Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created, and is the reason it has been created. This guy is sitting in a cave and he says, "Why can't man fly?"

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Now how can you like a man without wanting him?

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Theodore Sturgeon

Occupation: American Writer
Born: February 26, 1918
Died: May 8, 1985
Quotes count: 85
Wikipedia: Theodore Sturgeon

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