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
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.
nuts movers-and-shakers shakers
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
study i-can
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
writing important fiction
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
using-words reason no-point
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.
writing fire caves
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.
fields fiction science-fiction
The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
fiction majority commerce
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.
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.
dream years left
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
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.
consist scene
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.