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Theodore Sturgeon - From the Change category:
Nothing is always absolutely so. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Commerce category:
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Desire category:
Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Dreams category:
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Education category:
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. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Fire category:
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. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Ideas category:
I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Importance category:
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Loneliness category:
There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared, as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Love category:
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Questions category:
Ask the next question. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Reality category:
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Research category:
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Searching category:
There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Sleep category:
-More Than Human...
He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it, while animals are prepared to escape out of it. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Space category:
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Standards category:
Ninety percent of everything is crap. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Subject category:
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Words category:
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. (Theodore Sturgeon)
Theodore Sturgeon - From the Writing category:
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. (Theodore Sturgeon)
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