Theodore Sturgeon Quotes - Page 3

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• I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

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  Dollars, Sometimes, Week

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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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  Dream, Mean, Wife

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• I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.

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  Editors, Ideas, Waiting

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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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  Dream, Years, Felt

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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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  Science, Fiction, Stories

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• I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

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  Dream, Conviction

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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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  Writing, Reality, Important

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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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  Writing, Fire, Pages

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• The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

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  Fiction, Fields, Science Fiction

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

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  Fiction, Trash, Existence

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

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  Writing, Ideas, People

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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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  Writing, Dollars, Stories

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• There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

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  Writing, Stories, Done

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• I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

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  Using Words, Reason, No Point

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• Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.

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  Baby, Love Yourself, Someone You Love

  Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”

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• As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.

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  Dream, Concerned

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• I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

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  Jobs, Quitting, I Quit

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• In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

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  Science, Reality, Fiction

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• The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

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  Cheating, Firsts, Facts

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• The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

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  Majority, Fiction, Commerce

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