Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
Theodore Sturgeon

Writing, Done, Stories

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.
Theodore Sturgeon

Looking, Instead

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
Theodore Sturgeon

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Theodore Sturgeon

Good, Writer, Skill

Writing is a communication.
Theodore Sturgeon

Communication, Writing

You must write to the people's expertise.
Theodore Sturgeon

Write, Expertise

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
Theodore Sturgeon

Loneliness, Write, Story

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

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 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

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

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

Humor, Mind, Writing

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.
Theodore Sturgeon

Fact, Cheat, Story

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.
Theodore Sturgeon

Great, Fire, American

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

Learning, Find, Working

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 26, 1918

Died: May 8, 1985

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