Theodore Sturgeon Quotes - Page 3

I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

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

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

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

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

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

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.

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

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

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

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

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

As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.

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.

Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

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.

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

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