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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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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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Life
Fiction
Reality
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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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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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I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
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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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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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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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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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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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An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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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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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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