Quotes By Theodore Sturgeon

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

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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 have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

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

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

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.