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

#dollars #first #five #i #newspaper

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#been #nuts #obsessive #shakers

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

#company #dollars #dreamed #fact #first

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

#cannot #intensely #lot #people #things

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

#important #important things #nobody #people #poorly

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

#instead #looking #much #things #you

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

#i #impels #me #something #study

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

#good #good writer #got #properly #say

Writing is a communication. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#writing