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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
consist scene
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.