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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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Fear is a survival instinct fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
Theodore Sturgeon
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
Theodore Sturgeon
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.
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
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
Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
Theodore Sturgeon
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
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
The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
Theodore Sturgeon
Nothing is always absolutely so
Theodore Sturgeon
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Theodore Sturgeon
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Theodore Sturgeon
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
Theodore Sturgeon
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
Theodore Sturgeon
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
Theodore Sturgeon
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
Theodore Sturgeon
