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
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.
fiction trash existence
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.
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!
dream astonishment knows
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
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.
philosophical humor writing
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.
dream mean wife
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
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?
fiction science-fiction ninety
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
writing fiction-stories problem
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
dream concerned
As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.