Theodore Sturgeon Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Theodore Sturgeon quotes and sayings page 4 (writer). These are the last 10 out of 40 quotes we have for him.
“There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.”
“There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.”
“There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.”
“There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.”
“Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.”
“Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.”
“I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.”
“I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.”
“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.”
“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.”
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