No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs. Theodore Sturgeon More Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon More Quotes From Theodore Sturgeon Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. Theodore Sturgeon importantwritingreality Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough. Theodore Sturgeon enoughcan-dowant 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. Theodore Sturgeon using-wordsno-pointreason For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have. Theodore Sturgeon feltdreamyears I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. Theodore Sturgeon storiessciencefiction In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. Theodore Sturgeon sciencerealityfiction My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. Theodore Sturgeon wifedreammean The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. Theodore Sturgeon movers-and-shakersshakersnuts 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 teenagercouragewriting It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. Theodore Sturgeon shortfocusedsceneshould Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether. Theodore Sturgeon yourealitywayworld I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. Theodore Sturgeon storyreadinglostworld I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me. Theodore Sturgeon goodmeangrypeople
