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40 quotes by Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon (/ˈstɜrdʒən/; born Edward Hamilton Waldo; February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American science fiction and horror writer and critic. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits him with about 400 reviews and more than 200 stories. Sturgeon's most famous work may be the science fiction More Than Human (1953), an expansion of "Baby Is Three" (1952). More Than Human won the 1954 International Fantasy Award (for SF and...
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Writing is a communication.

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

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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

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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... →

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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... →

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

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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

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

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Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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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.

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

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I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

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

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