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
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.
fields fiction science-fiction
The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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.
using-words reason no-point
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
study i-can
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
writing important fiction
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
nuts movers-and-shakers shakers
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
want enough ifs
Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
people important want
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
dollars sometimes week
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.