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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
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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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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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.
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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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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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An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
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Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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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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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
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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.
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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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They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.
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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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Fear is a survival instinct fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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