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There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
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
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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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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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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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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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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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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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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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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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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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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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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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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
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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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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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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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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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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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