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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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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.
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That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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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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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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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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Fear is a survival instinct fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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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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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
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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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There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
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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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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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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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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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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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Nothing is always absolutely so
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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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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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