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Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.”

51. “No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “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.”

52. “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.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “He picked up three long fresh stalks of timothy and braided them together. He upended the scythe and thrust the handle deep enough into the soft earth so it would stand upright. He tied the braided grass to one of the grips and slipped the whetstone into the loops so it would stay. Then he walked off into the woods.”

53. “He picked up three long fresh stalks of timothy and braided them together. He upended the scythe and thrust the handle deep enough into the soft earth so it would stand upright. He tied the braided grass to one of the grips and slipped the whetstone into the loops so it would stay. Then he walked off into the woods.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it.”

54. “He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “There is no way of writing stories that I haven’t done.”

55. “There is no way of writing stories that I haven’t done.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.”

56. “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

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.”

57. “The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “There’s this about a farm: when the market’s good there’s money, and when it’s bad there’s food.”

58. “There’s this about a farm: when the market’s good there’s money, and when it’s bad there’s food.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “It wasn’t real conservatism at all, of course, but an unthought longing for the dear old days when one could predict what would be there tomorrow, if not next week. Unable to get the big picture, they welcomed the conveniences, the miniaturization of this and the speed of that, and then they were angrily confused when their support of these things changed their world.”

59. “It wasn’t real conservatism at all, of course, but an unthought longing for the dear old days when one could predict what would be there tomorrow, if not next week. Unable to get the big picture, they welcomed the conveniences, the miniaturization of this and the speed of that, and then they were angrily confused when their support of these things changed their world.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “Basically, fiction is people. You can’t write fiction about ideas.”

60. “Basically, fiction is people. You can’t write fiction about ideas.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “For years, I thought I simply didn’t dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn’t have.”

61. “For years, I thought I simply didn’t dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn’t have.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “Original sin,” he said thoughtfully. “That’s about Adam an’ – no, wait. I remember. Everybody’s supposed to be sinful to start with because it takes a sin to get’m started.”

62. “Original sin,” he said thoughtfully. “That’s about Adam an’ – no, wait. I remember. Everybody’s supposed to be sinful to start with because it takes a sin to get’m started.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.”

63. “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

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.”

64. “Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “When I can’t do something, this always impels me to study it.”

65. “When I can’t do something, this always impels me to study it.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.”

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “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.”

67. “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

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “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 just don’t do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.”

68. “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 just don’t do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “Wrong as a squirrel with feathers, or a wolf with wooden teeth; not injustice, not unfairness – just a wrongness that, under the sky, could not exist.”

69. “Wrong as a squirrel with feathers, or a wolf with wooden teeth; not injustice, not unfairness – just a wrongness that, under the sky, could not exist.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.”

70. “The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “I’ve hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I’ve talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.”

71. “I’ve hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I’ve talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “That’s fairly common. We don’t believe anything we don’t want to believe.”

72. “That’s fairly common. We don’t believe anything we don’t want to believe.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “Fiction is very important to me. It’s what I do, it’s what I do with my life.”

73. “Fiction is very important to me. It’s what I do, it’s what I do with my life.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn’t know it.”

74. “I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn’t know it.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.”

75. “I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “If you can’t be really good at anything, then the only way to be able to prove you are superior is to make someone else inferior. It is this rampaging need in humanity which has, since pre-history, driven a man to stand on the neck of his neighbor, a nation to enslave another, a race to tread on a race. But it is also what men have always done to women.”

76. “If you can’t be really good at anything, then the only way to be able to prove you are superior is to make someone else inferior. It is this rampaging need in humanity which has, since pre-history, driven a man to stand on the neck of his neighbor, a nation to enslave another, a race to tread on a race. But it is also what men have always done to women.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.”

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quote: “I have seen a lot of ugly things as a trainee and as a nurse, but they don’t bother me very much. It’s not that the familiarity hardens one; it is rather that one learns the knack of channelling one’s emotions around the ugly thing.”

78. “I have seen a lot of ugly things as a trainee and as a nurse, but they don’t bother me very much. It’s not that the familiarity hardens one; it is rather that one learns the knack of channelling one’s emotions around the ugly thing.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

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