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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
Theodore Sturgeon
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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
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Jobs
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Ashore
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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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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
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There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.
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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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There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
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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.
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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
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Ask the next question.
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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.
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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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.
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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.
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That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
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