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  • 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.

  • Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

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

    Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”
  • The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.

    Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”
  • The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

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

  • 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, Paul Williams, Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “A Saucer of Loneliness”, p.13, North Atlantic Books
  • Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

    Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”
  • Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

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

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

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

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

  • 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, Paul Williams, Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “A Saucer of Loneliness”, p.12, North Atlantic Books
  • I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

    Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.
  • Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

    Interview with David Duncan, www.physics.emory.edu.
  • 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 have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.
  • 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.

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

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

    Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”
  • No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

    Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Williams (1995). “Microcosmic God”, p.137, North Atlantic Books
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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