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Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
Theodore Sturgeon
American
Writer
Born:
Feb 26
,
1918
Died:
May 8
,
1985
Dream
First
Me
People
Writing
You
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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.
Theodore Sturgeon
Good
You
Words
Good Reason
No Point
Point
Written
Tightly
Always
Very
Going
Reason
Using
Apply
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Theodore Sturgeon
Science
Field
Parameters
Only
Poetry
Outside
Science Fiction
Limits
Whatsoever
Fiction
Literary
Which
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
Theodore Sturgeon
People
Important
Important Things
Tremendously
Say
Would
Nobody
Read
Want
Poorly
Who
They Say
Ever
Things
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
Theodore Sturgeon
Nuts
Obsessive
Always
Been
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.
Theodore Sturgeon
Writing
Compassion
Mind
Humor
Virtually
Philosophical
Rand
Impact
Some
Writer
Writers
Economical
Major
Like
Message
She
Because
Passing
Off
Huge
Huge Impact
Lousy
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Really
Who
Her
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.
Theodore Sturgeon
Me
Man
Problem
Society
President
Later
Hypnosis
Had
He
Concerned
Became
Encountered
Very
American
As Far As
Far
American Society
Who
Twenties
Serious
Medical
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
Theodore Sturgeon
Space
Outer
Outer Space
More
Empty
Because
Interesting
Much
Inner
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
Theodore Sturgeon
Thought
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Out
Dream
Had
Simply
Felt
Years
Left
Thing
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
Theodore Sturgeon
Me
Something
Study
Always
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
Theodore Sturgeon
Writing
First
Syndicate
Piece
Dollars
Five
Did
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Which
Newspaper
Paid
Publication
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
Theodore Sturgeon
Sometimes
Live
Ten
Week
Learned
How
Dollars
Five
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.
Theodore Sturgeon
Courage
Writing
Words
Teenager
Once
Out
All The Facts
Immoral
Facts
Had
Wrote
Came
Any
Story
Skills
Found
Pull
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
Theodore Sturgeon
You
Science
Own
Out
Also
Science Fiction
Test
Fiction
Realities
Your
There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.
Theodore Sturgeon
You
Looking
Could
Instead
Much
Things
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.
Theodore Sturgeon
Saying
Good
Great
Angry
Me
People
Down
Able
Hypnotized
Putting
Feel
Nobody
Talked
Been
Exist
Very
Far
Who
Many
Ever
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
Theodore Sturgeon
Dreams
Me
Wife
Beginning
Bit
Seem
Retrieve
Does
Working
Means
Writing is a communication.
Theodore Sturgeon
Communication
Writing
You must write to the people's expertise.
Theodore Sturgeon
You
People
Must
Write
Expertise
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Theodore Sturgeon
Good
You
Say
Something
Properly
Writer
Good Writer
Combine
Got
Then
Skill
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.
Theodore Sturgeon
You
Learning
People
Field
Other
Out
Would
Would-Be
Find
Able
Study
Practicing
How
Ultimately
Working
Your
Keep
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
Theodore Sturgeon
Words
Made
Same Thing
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Point
Same
Mean
Thing
Here
Two
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