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
study i-can
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
against editor field letter rejected sent warning wrote
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.
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.
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.
consist scene
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
far good great nobody people putting saying talked
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.
shoes lovers old-shoes
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
fields fiction science-fiction
The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
writing fire caves
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.
dream conviction
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
dream astonishment knows
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
mean two made
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
dream years left
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
using-words reason no-point
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.