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
fields fiction science-fiction
The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
writing important fiction
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
fiction majority commerce
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.
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.
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.
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.
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.
consist scene
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
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.
shoes lovers old-shoes
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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.
dream astonishment knows
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
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.