Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Ask the next question.
Theodore Sturgeon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
Question
Asks
Next
More quotes by Theodore Sturgeon
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
Theodore Sturgeon
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.
Theodore Sturgeon
There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
Theodore Sturgeon
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
Theodore Sturgeon
An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
Theodore Sturgeon
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
Theodore Sturgeon
Fear is a survival instinct fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
Theodore Sturgeon
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
Theodore Sturgeon
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.
Theodore Sturgeon
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Theodore Sturgeon
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
Theodore Sturgeon
That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
Theodore Sturgeon
A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.
Theodore Sturgeon
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
Theodore Sturgeon
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
Theodore Sturgeon
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
Theodore Sturgeon
Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
Theodore Sturgeon
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
Theodore Sturgeon
Nothing is always absolutely so
Theodore Sturgeon
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
Theodore Sturgeon
