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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
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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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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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
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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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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
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Nothing is always absolutely so
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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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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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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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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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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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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 movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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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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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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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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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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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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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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Ask the next question.
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