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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
Theodore Sturgeon
Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
Theodore Sturgeon
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Theodore Sturgeon
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.
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
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
Theodore Sturgeon
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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
The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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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.
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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.
Theodore Sturgeon
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
Theodore Sturgeon
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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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
They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.
Theodore Sturgeon
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
Theodore Sturgeon
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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.
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