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?
writing letters stories
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
writing people
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
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!
writing firsts students
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
simple trying remember
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
writing people expertise
You must write to the people's expertise.
writing ideas people
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
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