Quotes By Theodore Sturgeon

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

Writing is a communication.

You must write to the people's expertise.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.