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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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Science Fiction Writer
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E. Waldo Hunter
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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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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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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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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
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