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 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.
writing important fiction
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
writing ideas people
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
writing fiction-stories problem
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
writing people expertise
You must write to the people's expertise.
writing dollars stories
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
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.
writing stories done
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
philosophical humor writing
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
writing people
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
writing letters stories
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
communication writing
Writing is a communication.
loneliness being-alone writing
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.