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Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets.
— Theodore Sturgeon
There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Writing is a communication.
— Theodore Sturgeon
There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.
— Theodore Sturgeon
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
— Theodore Sturgeon
You must write to the people's expertise.
— Theodore Sturgeon
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
— Theodore Sturgeon
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
— Theodore Sturgeon
That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
— Theodore Sturgeon
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
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
— Theodore Sturgeon
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
— Theodore Sturgeon
90 percent of everything is crap.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Among the many things it meant was that even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
— Theodore Sturgeon
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
They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.
— Theodore Sturgeon
An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
— Theodore Sturgeon
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
— Theodore Sturgeon
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
— Theodore Sturgeon
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love.""He says only if you love yourself. — Theodore Sturgeon
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.
— Theodore Sturgeon
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
— Theodore Sturgeon
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
He had an animal's maturity, in which the play of kittens and puppies no longer has a function. His spectrum lay between terror and contentment.
— Theodore Sturgeon
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
— Theodore Sturgeon
God," he cries, dying on Mars, "God, we made it!
— Theodore Sturgeon
Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.
— Theodore Sturgeon
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
— Theodore Sturgeon
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
— Theodore Sturgeon
We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.
— Theodore Sturgeon
As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.
— Theodore Sturgeon
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
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
— Theodore Sturgeon
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Nothing is always absolutely so
— Theodore Sturgeon
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
— Theodore Sturgeon
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
— Theodore Sturgeon
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Sturgeons Revelation: 90% of everything is crap
— Theodore Sturgeon
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
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
— Theodore Sturgeon
The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.
— Theodore Sturgeon
90% of everything is crap.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
— Theodore Sturgeon
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Ask the next question.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
— Theodore Sturgeon
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
— Theodore Sturgeon
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!
— Theodore Sturgeon
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Sitting there most of the night," she said, "I had a crazy kind of image. Do you think two sick twisted 'trees ever made bonsai out of one another?
— Theodore Sturgeon