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

Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets.

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.

Writing is a communication.

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

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

You must write to the people's expertise.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.

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.

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

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

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

90 percent of everything is crap.

Among the many things it meant was that even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.

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.

They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.

An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.

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

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

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

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

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

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

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

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

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.

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

God," he cries, dying on Mars, "God, we made it!

Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.

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

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

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

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

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

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

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

Nothing is always absolutely so

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

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

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

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

Sturgeons Revelation: 90% of everything is crap

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?

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.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

90% of everything is crap.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

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

Ask the next question.

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

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

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

It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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?