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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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For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
Theodore Sturgeon
That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
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
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
Theodore Sturgeon
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
Theodore Sturgeon
An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
Theodore Sturgeon
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
Theodore Sturgeon
Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.
Theodore Sturgeon
Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
Theodore Sturgeon
Fear is a survival instinct fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
Theodore Sturgeon
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
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
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
Theodore Sturgeon
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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
There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
Theodore Sturgeon
