Theodore Sturgeon Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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

#Loneliness #Being Alone #Writing

“Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Fiction #Limits #Fields

“Writing is a communication.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Communication #Writing

“Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Lightning #Strikes

“Ninety percent of everything is crap.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Drinking #Ninety #Crap

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

#Writing #Letters #Stories

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

#Two #Mind #Different

“There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Loneliness #Soul #Quality

“Nothing is always absolutely so”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Fun

“A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific content.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Writing #Fiction #Stories

“If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Love #Heart #Hands

“Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Life #Stronger #Flow

“Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Thinking #People #Shut Up

“Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Baby #Love Yourself #Someone You Love

“There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Writing #People

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

#Dream #Conviction

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

#Dream #Years #Left Out

“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

#Using Words #Reason

“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

#People #Important #Want

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

#Want #Enough

“The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Nuts #Movers And Shakers #Shakers

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

#Writing #Important #Fiction

“As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Dream #Concerned

“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

#Writing #Fire #Caves

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

#Writing #Done #Way

“That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Believe #Want #Common

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

“Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Lonely #Loneliness #Long

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

“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.”
-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Editors #Ideas #Waiting