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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.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
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Literary
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
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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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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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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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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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