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
believe feeling looking people providing virtually
More and more, I've come to the feeling that I'm looking for people who believe in something, virtually anything, providing they believe in it.
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I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.
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.
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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.
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I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud.
writing ideas people
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
thinking people shut-up
Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.
men years people
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
writing people expertise
You must write to the people's expertise.
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 people
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
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I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
against create extended reader reality recognize talking test though
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.
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It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.