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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.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary
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Science Fiction Writer
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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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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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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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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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
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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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Ask the next question.
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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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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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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
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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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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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Nothing is always absolutely so
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An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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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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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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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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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
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