Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeonwas an American science fiction and horror writer and critic. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits him with about 400 reviews and more than 200 stories...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 February 1918
CountryUnited States of America
beauty world found
The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.
shoes lovers old-shoes
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
dog reflection mirrors
They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.
dog names justice
Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, there will not be a dog, a deer, an ape, a bird or fish or lizard to carry the evolutionary torch. In the name of justice, if we must condemn and destroy ourselves, let us not condemn all life along with us! We are heavy enough with sins. If we must destroy, let us stop with destroying ourselves!
science fiction stories
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
science reality tests
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
courage teenager writing
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.
brother men ifs
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
dollars sometimes week
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
people important want
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
want enough ifs
Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
fields fiction science-fiction
The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
editors ideas waiting
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.
far good great nobody people putting saying talked
I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.