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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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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Prosody
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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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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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Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?
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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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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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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 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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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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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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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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