Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeonwas an American science fiction and horror writer and critic. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits him with about 400 reviews and more than 200 stories...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 February 1918
CountryUnited States of America
writing important fiction
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
nuts movers-and-shakers shakers
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
want enough ifs
Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
people important want
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
dollars sometimes week
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
fiction majority commerce
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.
editors ideas waiting
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.
fiction trash existence
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.
people would-be able
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.
dog reflection mirrors
They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.
fiction science-fiction ninety
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
men hypnosis president
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.
brother men ifs
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
simple trying remember
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.