Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. Theodore Sturgeon More Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon More Quotes From Theodore Sturgeon Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with. Theodore Sturgeon strongerhotlife Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. Theodore Sturgeon emptyspaceinteresting Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it. Theodore Sturgeon shut-uppeoplethinking When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. Theodore Sturgeon comebackgood-writersskills I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud. Theodore Sturgeon twentiespeopleyears The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world. Theodore Sturgeon foundbeautyworld If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman. Theodore Sturgeon heartlovehands There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do. Theodore Sturgeon writingpeople Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough. Theodore Sturgeon lonelylonelinesslong Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere. Theodore Sturgeon trashexistencefiction Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, there will not be a dog, a deer, an ape, a bird or fish or lizard to carry the evolutionary torch. In the name of justice, if we must condemn and destroy ourselves, let us not condemn all life along with us! We are heavy enough with sins. If we must destroy, let us stop with destroying ourselves! Theodore Sturgeon dognamesjustice The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives. Theodore Sturgeon convictionyounglong 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 pagesfirewriting 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. Theodore Sturgeon ablewould-bepeople 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 editorswaitingideas There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do. Theodore Sturgeon An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking. Theodore Sturgeon lookswaythinking Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct! Theodore Sturgeon instinctmoralsurvival An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes. Theodore Sturgeon old-shoesshoeslovers Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. Theodore Sturgeon writingpeopleideas
