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
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.
lightning strikes
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
cheating dollars stories
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.
simple trying remember
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
next asks
Ask the next question.
lonely loneliness long
Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
farms
There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
long conviction young
The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.
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 reality tests
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
dollars sometimes week
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.