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
life stronger flow
Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.
fun
Nothing is always absolutely so
loneliness soul quality
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.
writing people
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
mean survival alive
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
two mind different
Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.
fiction limits fields
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.
writing letters stories
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
lightning strikes
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
drinking ninety crap
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
communication writing
Writing is a communication.
loneliness being-alone writing
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
against editor field letter rejected sent warning wrote
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
dream conviction
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.