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
loneliness being-alone writing
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
communication writing
Writing is a communication.
lightning strikes
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
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.
years people example
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud.
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.
survival moral instinct
Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!
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.
people would-be able
You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.
people moral helping
Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.
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.