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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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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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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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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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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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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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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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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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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
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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.
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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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Ask the next question.
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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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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.
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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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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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My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
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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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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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