Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

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

Society, Medical, Problem

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
Theodore Sturgeon

Enough, Wants, Anybody

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.
Theodore Sturgeon

Dream, Far, Concerned

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
Theodore Sturgeon

Write, Ideas, Fiction

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.
Theodore Sturgeon

Reality, May, Another

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
Theodore Sturgeon

Life, Important, Fiction

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, Else, Dream

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
Theodore Sturgeon

Mean, Words, Made

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

Good, Great, Angry

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
Theodore Sturgeon

Find, Dream, Mixed

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
Theodore Sturgeon

Life, Dream, Lived

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
Theodore Sturgeon

Live, Learned, Sometimes

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
Theodore Sturgeon

Job, Become, Writer

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.
Theodore Sturgeon

Lost, Against, Story

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
Theodore Sturgeon

Writing, Students, Teach

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
Theodore Sturgeon

Someone, Write, Story

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
Theodore Sturgeon

Science, Lost, Stories

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, Words, Reason

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
Theodore Sturgeon

Science, Test, Fiction

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
Theodore Sturgeon

Space, Empty, Inner

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
Theodore Sturgeon

Short, Whole, Focused

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, Wife, Working

Ninety percent of everything is crap.
Theodore Sturgeon

Everything, Percent, Crap

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

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Theodore Sturgeon

Science, Poetry, Outside

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 26, 1918

Died: May 8, 1985

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