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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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New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
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Ask the next question.
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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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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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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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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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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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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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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
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An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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