Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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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

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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

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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Ninety percent of everything is crap. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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