Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? Theodore Sturgeon More Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon More Quotes From Theodore Sturgeon I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. Theodore Sturgeon i-quit quitting jobs 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 cheating facts firsts Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them. Theodore Sturgeon moral helping people The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field. Theodore Sturgeon science-fiction fields fiction When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it. Theodore Sturgeon i-can study The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything. Theodore Sturgeon commerce majority fiction There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done. Theodore Sturgeon done stories writing I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream. Theodore Sturgeon conviction dream I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. Theodore Sturgeon astonishment knows dream I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week. Theodore Sturgeon week dollars sometimes There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food. Theodore Sturgeon farms 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. Theodore Sturgeon philosophical humor writing 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 dollars stories writing As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever. Theodore Sturgeon concerned dream No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs. Theodore Sturgeon men people years A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content. Theodore Sturgeon fiction-stories problem writing You must write to the people's expertise. Theodore Sturgeon expertise writing people Ask the next question. Theodore Sturgeon asks next Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself. Theodore Sturgeon someone-you-love love-yourself baby That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe. Theodore Sturgeon want common believe