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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.
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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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
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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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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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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 old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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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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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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Ask the next question.
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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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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
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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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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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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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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 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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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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