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
space interesting empty
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
writing firsts students
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
courage teenager writing
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.
There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.
dog names justice
Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, there will not be a dog, a deer, an ape, a bird or fish or lizard to carry the evolutionary torch. In the name of justice, if we must condemn and destroy ourselves, let us not condemn all life along with us! We are heavy enough with sins. If we must destroy, let us stop with destroying ourselves!
farms
There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
believe want common
That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
survival moral instinct
Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!
thinking way facts
An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
long conviction young
The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.
people moral helping
Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.
writing stories done
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
dream mean wife
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
beauty world found
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.